AceJupiter
MIS
Greetings,
I have a not well-loved Compaq notebook with XPP. It crashes -- simply shuts down -- in a fascinating fashion under heavy load (i.e. many programs open).
Particularly when running greedy programs like Illustrator and DreamWeaver along with Media Player, I get this crash.
What happens is, after prolonged CPU spike and HD spinning associated with these programs, the Windows Fax Wizard pops up! It asks me to enter my location etc. When I try to cancel out, it just keeps popping up.
This is my cue to save my work (although trying to save at this point in Word produced only gibberish). Within one minute the machine will turn off -- as in lights out, not as in shutting down gracefully. There will be a brief moment where the screen is still on but the machine accepts no input, then it just turns itself off.
Thoughts? Thanks. ==ACE
I have a not well-loved Compaq notebook with XPP. It crashes -- simply shuts down -- in a fascinating fashion under heavy load (i.e. many programs open).
Particularly when running greedy programs like Illustrator and DreamWeaver along with Media Player, I get this crash.
What happens is, after prolonged CPU spike and HD spinning associated with these programs, the Windows Fax Wizard pops up! It asks me to enter my location etc. When I try to cancel out, it just keeps popping up.
This is my cue to save my work (although trying to save at this point in Word produced only gibberish). Within one minute the machine will turn off -- as in lights out, not as in shutting down gracefully. There will be a brief moment where the screen is still on but the machine accepts no input, then it just turns itself off.
Thoughts? Thanks. ==ACE