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    Errors help!

    Discussion in 'HP' started by steve_emb, Dec 28, 2006.

  1. steve_emb

    steve_emb Notebook Consultant

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    I was doing a bit of photoshopping and listening to some music on itunes when suddenly the music started to skip over and over and then my laptop just randomly re-started itself. When it came back on it told me the system had recoeverd from a serious error - a message that I had seen before on my old computer. But this is a brand new laptop, should it be doing that? Also when my wireless client started up it said it had an error - send error report or not. That seemed pretty normal although Im still not keen on it but then I got an eror message from Dr Watsons PostMortem Debugger, Ive heard that this is a windows application but most of the websites I have been to have been unclear.

    Im running a system scan as I type wih avast!, is this the best I can do?

    Sorry if im being over dramatic, its just its brand new and i dont want it to be broken already.
     
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    Tim Notebook Virtuoso

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    Did your laptop overheat? That would cause it to shut down.

    What kind of specs does your laptop have?
    Tim
     
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    steve_emb Notebook Consultant

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    It only gets very warm if its on a soft surface. But it was on a desk at the time and stil is.

    specs:
    Windows xp Media Centre
    AMD athlon 64 x 2
    1gb ram
    120gb hd

    Also ive just ealised my songs are slightly skipping now and then.

    Ive checked drivers, conflicts etc. i cant find anything.
     
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    Tim Notebook Virtuoso

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    Do you know what the error message said?

    My hunch is that you just overloaded your laptop. Running Photoshop and iTunes on only 1GB of ram could have caused it.
    Tim
     
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    steve_emb Notebook Consultant

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    Well I ran photoshop, itunes, messenger, internet, and ftp prgram all at once on my old desktop and that has 128mb ram :/ Sure it went slow but atleast it did it. :)
     
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