my old shit box 486 - 75 crashed 50+++ times a day lol
but that was win 98 what do you expect

OK I'll give that a whirl plateman, this is XP Pro with SP2 btw.

Jel, considering that you can get a new PC for barely over beer money, I would highly recommend getting yourself a newer box. A place like, example, misco.co.uk or other would be able to help you out. You are looking at maybe 350-500 VAT in.

For what you will pay to keep your current computer passibly happy, you can have something that is somewhat more up to date.

The issues you are seeing are almost certainly related to disagreements between XP and the P3 motherboard you have. Your problem is sort of twofold - you are using more ram than you have (so it is swapping to disk) and many P3 boards are notorious for having bus issues. Because you are putting such a load on that side of the system, reboots, failures, and such as just par for the course.

My XP systems here pretty much get rebooted about once a week just to keep the cobwebs out. My laptop is only on when I need it.

Alex

From what I can see you defintely need to shut down some of the processes, switch them to manul, their probally is some program conflicts..which would not suprise me..max out your memory if you can.. I ran a 733mhz for 3 yrs..448mb ram and 64 mb video card and never had any problems with crashes..this site can help with some mods you can do to help http://www.speedguide.net
do a google search for list of processes that run in xp...I use to have link but site is down right now..but speed guide is good place to start...Good luck

I would be on the lookout for a new pc myself, I cannot say how much they cost where you live but most countries have some type of lease or payment scheme for computers these days.

We often get offers to buy a pc for $7 AUD a week.

Several years ago I bought a laptop on finance and sold my desktop then put the money earned from the desktop sale towards paying off the laptop and paid off the remainder over time.

once you step away from trying to save outdated technology you will realise the ability to work faster than before and more reliably was well worth the outlay.
I too was stubborn and did not want to upgrade but was glad I did :)

If you have an old hard drive as well you may be facing data loss shortly as well :(


remember this is a business and time is money

Wicked1