well, this never happened to me before.

I was transfering a file from my smartdrive to my laptop and shortly after things became a little wierd.
After the file was transfered, I tryed to eject the smartdrive. NO GO. I take a look at NHC and see that I'm using both cores to there max speed and the CPU load is way up and won't go down. I check the task manager and the only thing running is the sys idle and win media. I try to shut down the computer and it won't budge. The fan kicks on high. I accidentally kick the power cord and disconnect the AC power. The screen goes blank and won't refresh. I plug the power back in and still nothing. Out of desperation I hold down the power button and it finally shuts down. I reboot and everything works fine.

What could have caused such an annomoly? Should I be worried?

 

I wouldn't be that worried since this is the first time that it happened. You can freak out more if happens again

My guess is that something happened when the laptop was transfering the file over to the smartdrive. Maybe something like the smartdrive wasn't completely connected, but enough for XP to recognize it was there.

It could have just been the usual XP freezes for no reason at all also. Honestly, since this was the first time, I wouldn't be too concerned. I've had it happen before but doing different things. For whatever reason XP didn't like what I was doing and decided to stop responding.

 

Thanks, amber(or at least I think that's your name, I'll stick with Southern Girl in the future if you prefer)

 

LOL either works. SG is just shorter for me to type

 

Is ur smartdrive an External HDD or just FLash Drive? I was transfering my files today from my External HDD. Both copy, moving files back and forth Laptop hdd and USB hdd. The CPU went to 70%.

 

My smart drive is a Geek Squad 1GB flash drive from Best Buy.

 

I guess it will depend on how lazy I am on whether I use Amber or SG when typing.