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Hi there,
I have an HP XW5000 desktop which has p4 2.4 ghz 512 ram dvd burner and 40 gig harddrive. I've loaded windows xp with sp2 and the problem im having is that while im navigating through windows the machine will suddenly reboot. The harddrive just shuts off and then moments later will start back up and reboot and then when i get back into windows this message will come up saying windows had just recovered from a serious error. Does anyone have any idea what this could be. Also does anyone know of any bootable diagnostic tools that boot from floppy to test the computer hardware. Thanks

Mike

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There's a lot of stuff here that may give you some clues:
http://www.devhood.com/Messages/message_view-2.aspx?thread_id=71920

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