Strange spontanious reseting

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Graeme Hartley

Win2k has been the most stable OS that I have used for the past few years
until recently!!!

I am now having problems with processes not completing (like deleting files,
changing permissions, closing applications etc...). If I take a look at
these processes using the task manager they are running and or not flagged
as 'not responding'. If I forcefully stop them then other applications which
I start up do not run properly and eventually my hard disks power down and
the whole system goes down just as if I have pressed the 'reset' switch on
the front of my machine. There are other times where I can just be panning
the mouse over something or opening and menu and my computer just
spontaneously resets as above.

Invariably, when the system self-reboots, I get the little dialogue box
stating "Windows is starting up..." and this stays up indefinitely until I
have to press 'reset' in my computer's front panel, then the computer will
boot up properly after this.

I have no idea what is causing this (no error log, nothing!), but suspect it
is one of Microsoft's latest Update patches... As I said before, I have
never had problems like this but only since I have recently (in the last two
months or so) updated using MS Update!

Anyone any ideas?

Cheers,

Graeme
 
See my post above.

The problem is one of the patches released 1/25/05. I uninstalled the
following 4 patches and that fixed the problem. However, I'm not sure where
we go from here!!

KB887797
KB871250
KB891711
KB890175
 
Try installing them one at a time till you replicate the problem, then
uninstall the last one and then resolve the problem.
 
That would work Bob, except several are dependent on the others, i.e.,
removing one disables the others. I did isolate that 871250 was not the
problem. I suspect it is 891711 or 890175 since those interact with Norton's
LiveUpdate feature.
 
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