Recurring System Crashes with WIN XP PRO

[shamrock838]

Recurring System Crashes With Windows XP Professional :

Greetings,

My Gateway 2000 Pentium II (450 MHz) system is just over 10 years old and has definitely seen better days. [I’m currently shopping for a 2008 replacement.]

I also use MS Windows XP Professional Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 … and my Internet Explorer is Version 7.0.5730.12 Build 75730 with Cipher Strength of 128-Bit.

The first indication something was wrong was when Adobe prompted me to upgrade their Acrobat Standard program from 7.0 to something like 7.0.1 a while back. I tried doing so but it froze up before completion. So I cancelled out. The problem remains unresolved and I was unable to remove the program through Control Functions. This all seemed related to a problem with “ActiveX flash drive” (?).

In recent weeks I started getting a number of system crashes (2 of them today alone) where the system automatically reboots to display a message that reads “The system has recovered from a serious error.” [I made some Print Screen captures and saved these as MS Word 2003 files if anyone is interested. These show the actual display screens and what they said including technical codes, etc.]

Checking into this further I learned I had an “Ethernet Networking Problem.” I followed the screen prompts that eventually led to my Windows Update History.

Now I’ve been receiving Windows XP automatic updates regularly since the spring of 2005. All have been received successfully except the following 2008 entries:
Security Update for Windows XP (KB952954),
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 [FAILED ?]
Windows Service Pack 3 (KB936929),
Wednesday, August 13, 2008 [CANCELLED]

The following additional errors were received between April 2005 and December 2007:
Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474),
December 28, 2007 [CANCELLED]
Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP,
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 [FAILED ?]
Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474),
Tuesday, April 03, 2007 [FAILED ?]
Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474),
Tuesday, March 20, 2007 [FAILED ?]
Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP,
Tuesday, February 20, 2007 [CANCELLED]
Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP,
Sunday, December 10, 2006 [FAILED ?]
Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP,
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 [CANCELLED]
Windows Genuine Advantage Notification (KB905474),
Tuesday, June 6, 2006 [FAILED ?]
Security Update for Windows XP (KB913446),
Wednesday, February 15, 2006 [CANCELLED]
Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool – April 2005 (KB890830)
Friday, April 15, 2005 [FAILED ?]

BTW … on each system re-boot I did “Send Error Report.” Were these supposed to initiate some corrective active on the part of Microsoft??

What do I do now please. Thanks.

shamrock838

 

[PC eye]

A P II system over 10yrs. of service has seen it's last days! No one here can point at the exact problem being seen on any system that old. There are too many things that could easily fail from wear and age.

Possible hardware problems? More then obvious as far as faulty memory, a failing cpu, hard drive showing wear, power supply on the way out seeing a bad cap or transformer, a bad or leaking cap on the board, and a simple item no one ever thinks to look at if that old board uses a battery and not a cap to retain the cmos information!

A common Lithium type battery used in some watches but more like a calculator is a coin sized coin shaped battery on the board itself. If you have one that lasted 10yrs. and is now growing weak before simply being doa you're done something exceptional!