"Keith (Southend)" wrote in message
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I'll be brief, but over the last few months I have posted about numerous
computer issues from 'blue screen crashes' to installing SATA drives and
'Flat Screen Monitors', all an expensive excersise.

The SATA drive was an attempt to see whether it was a Hard Drive / IDE
cable / MoBo fault, that the MS Error messages were suggesting. (Treat
these messages with a pinch of salt).
I successfully installed the SATA drive over a week ago, after some
initial complications due to my lack of understanding. A new install of
Windows XP Pro, and within a hour a 'blue screen' crash / reboot. Also
various programmes continued to have faulting modules and closing down
with 'send error message to Microsoft' etc, before closing. (Firefox /
Thunderbird / Excel / Wordpad and more). Only a reboot would get them to
work again.


Check your memory, clean and reseat. Get a copy of Win2000 Pro.