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Thanks Nitro. I give it a whirl and hope for the best.

Hey to all! I have recently come up with a problem on my XP Pro machine. I am having problems with slow response and lock ups. I keep the machine as clean as I can, and have no viruses I can find (scanned daily w/AVG) I use Ad-Aware SE Plus often. I clean the registry at boot up. Enough of all that! I have been noticing that my HDD is running almost all the time, even when the machine is totally idle. I have found that the process cidaemon.exe is running alot, and at 80-100% cpu. I have found out that this is an "indexing service", supposedly designed to speed up file searchs. I think I have narrowed it down to this process by pausing it in management services, and of course the drive and cpu idle up. My question to those with more knowledge than I is, can I just stop this process and live with longer file searches, or am I asking for more trouble? I have looked for as much info as I can find, and some say this is a vital process for windows to function properly. Any thoughts on this would be a great help! My system is: AMD Athalon XP 2000+ Soyo KT333 M/B 512 Ram ATI "All in Wonder" 128 Pro Creative Audigy Sound

Thank you for your 2 cents Gouki. I tried what you said, but it didn't help. After fighting it all day and things got to the point that the box wouldn't hsardly run at all, what ended up being the problem (I Think) was the Sound Blaster Audigy Drivers. As I was painstakingly putting pieces back together until it broke again, I put in the sound card and got the BSOD back. I removed the drivers and downloaded the newest ones and got it back up and running. I don't know why it would crap out like that all of the sudden, but thats computers for ya!! Any way, thanks again for the interest!

Hey Guys & Gals! I need help bad!!! I'll give you my box info, then tell you my sad story. I have: Win XP Pro SP1 AMD Atholon XP 2000+ MB Soyo KT333 Platinum Ultra (Latest Bios) 512mb ram (Crucial DDR PC2700) ATI All in Wonder 128 SB Audigy Platinum Sound 2.0 USB Card(PCI) DVD/RW CD/RW 2 WD HDD Generic 56K Modem(PCI) At the time the box was built, all the latest drivers available were installed. The box has been running without a single problem since Jan. 2005. What has happened was I was dialing into a PBX for work using Hyper Access like I do all day every day, and as the modem was negotiating the computer rebooted out of the blue. It came back up and I tried again and at the same exact time it rebooted again, only this time I got a different welcome screen, and it wanted me to log in, (which I had set so I wouldn't have to) So I logged in and the PC rebooted again only this time I got a BSOD during Windows boot saying: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL at the top and STOP 0x000000D1 at the bottom. I looked this up and it referenced a driver problem. I booted again and at the same point I got a different BSOD saying "The driver is attempting to access memory beyond the end of the allocation" with STOP 0x000000D6. On one of those screens it also suggested to use Verifier.exe to troubleshoot the driver causing the problem. I booted into safe mode and ran verifier, but couldn't really figure out how to use it. I then thought maybe it had something to do with my modem, so removed it and the driver to no avail. I then removed Hyper Access, but no help. I read on a BBS that other people had similar problems, and one of the fixes was to go into msconfig and disable all startup items and reboot. I tried that and viola, it booted up. False hopes. The next time I booted it went right back to the BSOD. I have taken the system down to the primary drive and a video card, and have reseated the ram. No help!!! I have checked the CPU temp and it is 125F, and I have plenty of fans running on the box. I am now writing this in Safe Mode, which everything seems to be fine! I know this is long winded, but I am at a loss of what to do next. I am trying to avoid reinstalling XP. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

I'm raw here and don't go for avatars and smiley faces, but I have read alot of your guys stuff, and am very impressed with the knowledge. I have a AMD athlon XP 2000+ running on a Kt333 soyo board. I have 2 HDD's, 1 w/win98 and 1 w/winXP pro. Both can boot on their own and have all programs and drivers installed. I would like to boot from either and would like your suggestions on either a boot manager or a better way of setting up the system. Any help would be appreciated, Thank you.