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Out of the Blue
[Jan 12, 2003, 11:47 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

Lately I've had some serious glitches with my gaming computer, and as a temporary network troubleshooting effort as much as anything, installed a couple of games on my work computer as a control test. As it turns out, this measure may be more than temporary, as this machine seems to not only clear up the problem I was addressing, and plays everything I've tried so far flawlessly, in spite of this machine's use of Windows 2000 Professional, which Microsoft readily admits is not very well suited for game playing. Go fig.

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Re: Windoz Ex-Pee!
Jan 12, 2003, 17:44

WarPig

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Re: Windoz Ex-Pee! Jan 12, 2003, 17:44

Jan 12, 2003, 17:44

WarPig

I've known at least 2 other people besides myself where XP just eats itself and refuses to load one day.

For what it's worth - I also had this problem (the system file would somehow go "missing or corrupted") numerous times, like once every other boot up, and so did a lot of other people. I figured a quick and dirty way around it but it was still a pain when it happened. Microsoft's solution at the time would be to tell you how to restore your system without ever addressing the cause - probably because they didn't know. I think it had something to do with the timing between the ram and hardrive during shutdown. Anyway, since I installed the service pack, I haven't had it happen once.

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Of course I could be wrong... but really, what are the chances of that happening twice?