Lionel van den Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:20:24 -0400, E wrote:
>
>> When I brought it home, and hooked it
>> up to my monitor, keyboard etc... it came on with no problem. I've never
>> had it long enough to duplicate the blue screen.
>
> It's funny you say that. I don't know too much about hardware, or
> windows, but my brothers computer experienced similar problems a few
> years ago. Turned out he had a keyboard (or was it mouse) driver
> installed that was specific for his input device. There was a bug in the
> custom driver that was causing doze to crash.

And as I wrote the above I started to wonder the same thing. Maybe just
try a different keyboard and mouse. She is still using the same Dell CRT
Monitor, and if I recall, the same Dell keyboard and mouse. Maybe
coffee on the keyboard?

>
> Check the drivers, make sure doze has all updates installed etc.

I may remove three PCI cards that aren't currently being used. The
system had this same problem before changing out the video card, but I
will update it anyway. I've thought of doing a clean install of XP as well.

>
>
> Hmmm, not good practice X-posting. Cut to single group.
>
>

Yes, I knew better. Haven't posted anything in Usenet for awhile and
thought maybe it didn't matter anymore. But if it helps me getting a
reply, I will comply.

Eddie