XP Instability Problems 3

[ssVBAdev]

Well, as you may have read in my other thread (thread779-1088651), I've been having troubles with Windows XP restarting and other programs (AutoCAD for example) simpy closing down without notice.

Here are a couple of Event Log Items:

Faulting application explorer.exe, version 6.0.2800.1106, faulting module ntdll.dll, version 5.1.2600.1217, fault address 0x0001fca7.

and the correspnding...

Fault bucket 49041451.

Automatic certificate enrollment for local system failed to contact the active directory (0x8007054b). The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted.
Enrollment will not be performed.

To clarify here are some of the symptoms:
- Explorer will sometimes restart (without reboot) but will allow the programs to remain open.
- While working normally in a program, the screen will go blank (Black) as the computer restarts automatically. Upon reboot, Windows tells me that it has recovered from a serious error and, following the Info links, tells me that it is a device driver (although it cannot tell me what) is the cause of the problem.

The instance mentioned in the thread above the computer rebooted but would not allow me to go past the "Welcome to Windows" screen (ie. ctrl+alt+delete would not function regardless of rebooting, new keyboard, etc, etc).

So, I formatted the disk and started over. I have not even installed all of the programs and devices and I am still experienceing the reboots.


Argh... Any thoughts??




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[ssVBAdev]

AurtherKnight:
Thanks for input but as I mentioned it turned out to be a motherboard problem. So scanning the file system at this point would be irrelevant and not a help. The computer hardware itself could not write to the RAM and then read it back properly.

Just one of those quirky things that can happen I guess.

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