[Web4lib] intermittent blue screens of death

[Hilton Gibson]

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On 9 August 2011 13:13, John Fitzgibbon <jfitzgibbon at galwaylibrary.ie>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On our public Internet PCs, we will occasionally have a PC that will
> intermittently crash with a blue screen of death. This problem develops over
> time for no apparent reason, and the crashes occur about once or twice per
> day. The problem develops without any hardware or software being installed.
> I suspect the problem is being caused by the wearing out of the hard disk,
> but I am not sure of this. The PCs have a Juzt-Reboot card which wipes all
> data upon reboot; presumably, this means there is no memory dump file to
> examine. Frequently, the problem is solved by reinstalling the operating
> system (Windows XP), drivers, and software without changing the hard disk.
>
> Is there a better way of dealing with this problem? When I reinstall the
> operating system, should I also change the hard disk, to pre-empt imminent
> problems, simply because the hard disk is over a certain age?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> John
>
>
>
> John Fitzgibbon
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