win2k pro hard drive problems

chris15

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Every once in a while under win2000 pro, my whining hard drive will just shut off and the computer will reboot... sometimes under high usage, and sometimes for no reason.

I recently upgraded to 2000 from 98, and I have never had this problem before

I have a western digital 20 GB 7200 rpm, windows is installed on a 13 GB partition with ntfs.
my system is a duron 700 with 96 MB of ram, I currently have 256 more on the way.
I think it might have to do with memory, since it takes about 5 minutes to completely boot up and my drive is always struggling to open programs.

please help me, as i know this isnt good for the hard drive.

 

randal

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I have the same problem ... my win2k box will randomly just reboot for no reason. quite disturbing. include me in the "looking for a solution" category.

randal
 

chris15

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anyone else?

also, when I lock the workstation, the screen saver will not activate after 3 min. or whatever, even though i have it enabled.