XP crashes randomly with an active firewall

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Alexander O'Neal

i have been having a very fustrating problem. A few weeks
ago, my computer began to to randomly crash. As the
progressed it got to the point where it would POST and
then restart assummingly infinetly. I reformated and
gradually reinstalled my applcations and traced the
problem to Notron Personal Firewall. I disabled it and
had a successful series of powerups. I dithed norton and
have started using Mcafee Firewall and anti virus. My
computer for 1 day with just the anti virus software
running, after i activated the firewall it ran for three
hours. If anyone knows of a virus that could cause this,
or a fix it would be of GREAT assistance.

here are my specifications:
windows xp home all patches and SP's
AMD 2100xp, Aopen ak778xn mobo
two maxtor 120gb hd(c:,D:) one western digital 120gb hd
(e:) one 60gb hd (f:); three rom drives routed through two
PCI ata controllers.
one linksys wireless pci card, one realtek 10/100
intergrated LAN
ATI radeon 9700, ATI TV wonderPCI
1.25GB ram

thanks to those that can help and thanks for reading!
 
Hey Alex,

start/run
eventvwr.msc

Click on system in left hand window

Look in the system eventlog entries in the right hand window for any events
labelled "System Error" and "Save Dump"

and post the latest error codes, by double clicking on the event in the
right hand pane and using the copy button, and then right click/paste into
the body of your reply.

To prevent automatically restarting after a crash, to stop the cyclical
booting,

contol panel/system/advanced/startup and recovery settings

Unselect Automatically Restart

If its a driver issue, the driver will be listed near the bottom of the blue
screen you will get if the system crashes again. Post the name of the
driver.


In the meantime, visit the windows update site and make sure you have all
the latest patches.
Visit McAffees support site and check for any known issues.

check your system for any unsigned drivers.

start/run
sigverif

You could try repairing any corrupted windows xp files with

start/run
sfc /scannow

Best of Luck

Paul
 
Is your CPU fan working?
Mine was in the process of dying. I started getting reboots and all kinds
of problems.
The firewall is another load on the CPU and more heat.
Win XP shuts down if the CPU gets too hot (at least mine does).

A new CPU fan and I was back I business
 
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