Every now and then My computer screen will freeze and I lose power to my keyboard and mouse. I can still hear the computer fans running but I can't do anything but a hard shutdown. Any clues? Specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2800
1 GB RAM
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600 Pro, 128 MB RAM
Epox 8RDA motherboard
300 watt Sparkle power supply
Windows 2000 SP4 (if that matters)
It doesn't crash; it just shuts off. Sometimes it can go for days without a hitch, other times it does it every half hour. Memtest86 says the RAM is fine and the capacitors on the motherboard, all the cards, and in the power supply look good. I'm thinking of ruling out heat, since it can happen during games or during mere email/typing sessions where there's little CPU usage. I can't be sure though. I'm trying to use a new Monitor and when I turn it on it does not load properly. I just keep getting this message: reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device. What does that mean? What do I have to do? I've been getting blue screen once or twice a week now for about a month. This is what it says afterward. Yes I've done the virus scan.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033

Additional information about the problem:
BCCode: 10000050
BCP1: FBBA22F6
BCP2: 00000000
BCP3: A42573E4
BCP4: 00000000
OS Version: 6_0_6001
Service Pack: 1_0
Product: 768_1

Files that help describe the problem:
C:\Windows\Minidump\Mini052912-01.dmp
C:\Users\Funda\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-110370-0.sysdata.xml
C:\Users\Funda\AppData\Local\Temp\WERC35D.tmp.version.txt

I have a new computer running Win7. I've been streaming videos on it for two weeks with no problems. Today, while watching a video on Comcast, the video stopped and the screen went white with a grey circle and exclamation point in the center. This is something completely new to me. I couldn't click anything on the screen, so backed out, restarted the video and after a couple of commercials (that played OK), the video started and immediately did the same thing. I changed to another show on Comcast -- same result, then HULU -- same result, then to CBS.com -- same result. I booted up the old XP computer (thankfully I hadn't given it away yet) and the videos played fine. Is this a computer problem or Win7 or what? I turned the Win7 computer off, booted back up and it played about 10 minutes of the video before stopping and showing the exclamation point screen again. I can't find any explanation of what that screen means. Oh, if it makes any difference, both computers are hooked up to the same DSL modem - router.
I just built a new computer and everything seems to be OK with it. Everything loads up right, except that it does not have an operating system yet. I have an 80GB western digital drive, the special edition with 8MB cache. The HDD gets detected just fine and correctly in the BIOS. Now I am trying to install windows 98se while I await the arrival of my WinXP CD. This is a brand new hard drive, and while running FDISK to create a partition, the program detects only 10GB of space on the drive. I am currently in the process of formatting this 10GB partition that I created. But here is my question: is FDISK supposed to detect only 10GB on the drive, even though the drive capacity is 80GB (BIOS detects it as an 80GB drive)? I know there is a maximum amount of space that each partition can contain, but why does FDISK only DETECT 10GB instead of detecting 80GB? Am I doing something wrong in the setup of the hard drive (running FDISK, then formatting, then installing Windows)? BTW I did create the partition as FAT32.

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