[Help] - Sudden Reboot/DNS glitch/slow refresh

[pirouette]

In a nutshell...

I'll have Outlook open and the next thing I see is a black screen as my comp's going into BIOS from a completely sudden reboot.

So then, I think, I need a new HD so I get a Western Digital and make it a slave as I transfer all the stuff from my other HD.

Now the comp's booting up into the slave as I gave it it's own OS and am in the process of loading it up with software I've had for ages that ran OK previously.

And then, one day, the slave starts with the "you shoulda saved that novel you wrote in that email" black screen reboot. Save early save often is my new motto.

So then I think maybe I have a HUGE outlook PST file so I archive alot of it. Nope.

I've got 384 MB Ram, a Pentium 3, a 12 GB Master (stop laughing!) and a 200 GB slave.

Here's when it happens, I open Outlook but it's slow to open nowadays, and then I open spider solitaire for a mindless game as my email DLs. I used to keep my outlook open all the time however, with the glorious reboot every time the comp feels like dumping, it closes. And so, with the very overloaded comp only opening two programs, it will give me about 5 min and then...the black screen.

OK, that's problem one, I did install a registry fixer which helped alleviate the problem a little. I am thinking of buying it for the full version, what do you think ?

Also there are two comps in my little home network but we have to keep going into services and restarting the DNS client. I have a router coming off of my DSL modem. Any idea how to resolve the DNS client issue?

Finally, if I try and add a picture to an email, it takes FOREVER for the files to refresh so that I can choose one of them to put into an email; paging is absolutely a nightmare. (This is where I play a mindless game of spider inbetween clicking on the scrollbar to advance the files).

Other than that, the comp runs great and is pretty fast in comparison with the other, much younger (by two years) comp in the house.

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--Zxian

[cluberti]

Have you considered configuring the PC to do a complete memory dump, not automatically reboot, and then configure driver verifier? This could just be a hardware or PSU problem, but if it's an OS problem the aforementioned steps should help you catch the culprit.

To turn on the verifier, type "verifier" in the run box or at a command prompt, and select "Create Standard Settings", then "Automatically select unsigned drivers", then select drivers from the list that you'd like to watch.

[pirouette]

ok, there were four unsigned drivers so I will be watching them.

Thanks for the help! B)

[cluberti]

Not a problem. Keep us updated .

[pirouette]

Not a problem. Keep us updated .

It still has problems and I think an answer might be that one of the cables is damaged, I know my CD ROM does not work properly all the time.

It's just so frustrating everything is so slow, and this computer was never like that before?