I'm not an expert with operating systems but I'm not a novice either. I have a problem that I have not been able to fix despite several reinstalls, formats, complete erasure of the hard drives using kill disk.
Problem: When I leave windows running for a hours at a time without a restart, explorer begins to not work. First I will not be able to have more than 5 explorer windows at a time (be it internet explorer or windows explorer). Then it will drop to 4, 3, 2, 1 and eventually and I will not be able to open up an explorer window. I get the "windows error" sound every time I try to open an explorer window. I reboot the computer and everything is fine again for a few hours until it has been running a while and just starts to do this again.
Attempts and checks:
1) Reformatted hard drives and clean install of windows xp
2) Inspected task manager for anything that appeared to be using an abnormally large amout of memory. Windows is using about 300+MB of memory while this is happening. I have 2GB.
3) Inspected processor utilization. Hovers near 0% when this is happening.
4) Inspected all running processes. Nothing that I did not install myself.
Setup:
AMD 4800+ socket 939
ASUS A8V Deluxe
ATI 850 PRO
2GB System Memory
2- 74GB Raptors Raid
2- 320GB Seagate 7200.10 Raid
2- 120 GB Seagate 7200.9 Raid
2- DVD RW
Antec 480W PSU
X-Fi Xtreme Music
My Concern is that may have too many things on this power supply. I have not measured current being pulled or watts being pulled. IF anyone thinks this may be an issue please let me know. I have exhausted many resources trying to figure this out. I hope there is someone out there that has seen this problem. Thanks for all the help.
Problem: When I leave windows running for a hours at a time without a restart, explorer begins to not work. First I will not be able to have more than 5 explorer windows at a time (be it internet explorer or windows explorer). Then it will drop to 4, 3, 2, 1 and eventually and I will not be able to open up an explorer window. I get the "windows error" sound every time I try to open an explorer window. I reboot the computer and everything is fine again for a few hours until it has been running a while and just starts to do this again.
Attempts and checks:
1) Reformatted hard drives and clean install of windows xp
2) Inspected task manager for anything that appeared to be using an abnormally large amout of memory. Windows is using about 300+MB of memory while this is happening. I have 2GB.
3) Inspected processor utilization. Hovers near 0% when this is happening.
4) Inspected all running processes. Nothing that I did not install myself.
Setup:
AMD 4800+ socket 939
ASUS A8V Deluxe
ATI 850 PRO
2GB System Memory
2- 74GB Raptors Raid
2- 320GB Seagate 7200.10 Raid
2- 120 GB Seagate 7200.9 Raid
2- DVD RW
Antec 480W PSU
X-Fi Xtreme Music
My Concern is that may have too many things on this power supply. I have not measured current being pulled or watts being pulled. IF anyone thinks this may be an issue please let me know. I have exhausted many resources trying to figure this out. I hope there is someone out there that has seen this problem. Thanks for all the help.
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