crashing computer

studoc

Sometimes when i switch on my computer it goes through the motions upto the point of pressing " connect"then the mouse wont move the cursor,rolling the mouse about abit makes it crash and it starts up again.This can happen 2 or 3 times before i can get on line .All help apreciated.

Slayerx

When you can log on I would suggest running a error checking to see if that resolves it.

Can you post your pc spec and are you running windows xp?

Mr_Meanie

This is a real long shot but I had similar problems with a freezing mouse pointer for months and months, after doing a complete reinstall the problem persisted, in desperation I started to look for loose connections inside the case and came across the ‘The Bulging Capacitor Problem’ which in my case were leaking a brown gunge.

Have a look here for some photos:-
http://www.thenakedpc.com/dan/Bulging_Capacitors/

After a new motherboard was fitted everything returned to normal.

studoc

Slayerx wrote:

When you can log on I would suggest running a error checking to see if that resolves it.

Can you post your pc spec and are you running windows xp?

Windows M E on a pentium 3 with 64mb ram.Thanks

albertross_2

have you checked for malware, and patched it with windowsupdate?

studoc

error checks ok,
running windows ME on a Pentium III with 64Meg RAM.
can't see any burns inside.
Thankyou for your help :¬)

IvanOpinion

What all are you trying to run when it starts up 64Mb RAM is tiny nowadays. Do you have enough free disk space for the swap file. I would first try putting in the Windows disk and ask it to do a repair and if that doesn't do any good I would rebuild the hard disk from clean (after backing up any data of course).

Ivan

electron_3

Lol @ 64mb RAM you deffo wnat to up that by 256mb at least.

T4i

It *should* run on 64MB RAM. I can remember running 98SE on 64MB RAM.

I would download ccleaner and clean your HDD. Right click on C:\ and see how much free space you have.

If you have plenty of HDD space you could always try increase the size of the page file.

You can also turn auto-reboot off somehow, not sure in ME as I've not used it in ages.