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I'm stumped
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Posted by: uh...ok
For some reason my system has been ridiculously unstable for awhile, and even after I replaced the CPU and motherboard and did a fresh install of Windows XP, nothing much has improved.
Aside from some not-so-occasional random abrupt reboots and Windows crashes, recently the most prominent (as in it happens at least once or twice a day - today it's happened way more than that) problem has been a sudden loss of application access to Internet and subsequent "crash" of sorts.
Description:
All of a sudden, Firefox stops being able to load pages and returns the "Document contains no data" error. Similarly, Netscape gives the same message, and IE gives a Page load failure. AIM promptly gets disconnected and unable to reconnect (well it actually sticks around until I try to do something on it). Practically everything fails to connect, except mIRC still runs fine, and I can ping any web page or IP I so please and still get a response. Finally, when I attempt to reboot, the system restarts abruptly at the "Logging off" stage.
After the reboot, Windows complains that it has "recovered from a serious error" (which usually happens after a BSOD).
One common pattern I notice is that it happens a lot of the times when I'm web-browsing (and the Internet connection seems to be the trouble in the first place) - and in particularly when I'm viewing pages run on my own Apache 2.0.48 server. But I have been running Apache for years now without a hitch.
I ran Adaware with the latest reference file, and, even though Norton AV is always on and updates itself all the time, I ran a system scan anyway - to find no results except one cookie lying in my documents folder. I also ran a registry cleaning program, RegHeal, this afternoon, so all things seem to check out.
Linked here are my system specs as copied off Sandra's report.
Posted by: DemonBob
Try a different NIC card?
Posted by: redwench
yeah, your modem/router/card/cable might be going.
if youre not online, is the system stable?
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