[Taffycat]

Hi guys, just now, a message popped up, to say "aaCentre.exe has stopped working and will be closed." so I tried a Google to see what it is (because nothing appeared to stop working, that I can detect, anyway.) I gather it's something to do with the Asus mobo(?) and how it handles communications between some hardware and the PC(?) As you see, I'm struggling a bit...

My question is, should I be doing anything about this please? Thank you for looking

[itsme]

Hiya!

Have a look at the CPU usage [ctrl+alt+delete] look for the the offender if it is using 50% stop it starting with windows and see if that stops it poping up.

[Taffycat]

Hi there Itsme thank you for your reply. At the moment, it's only BOINC that is showing up - everything else is pretty "quiet" ... but I'm guessing that I should really look again after a re-start, because presumably, whatever it was that "closed" will not actually be working at the minute. (Cor, aren't you impressed by the brilliant deductions of this woman? ) I will bear your advice in mind and make a point of looking after a re-boot.

[itsme]

If it causes a problem which I doubt>msconfig and disable it..thats all

[itsme]

(Cor, aren't you impressed by the brilliant deductions of this woman? )

Your a caracter Top Cat! It is the correct name I put on to you

[Taffycat]

Thank you again - and for the complement

Your right, no problems with BOINC at all, so far, so maybe it was just a wee hiccup with something else. All seems well

[itsme]

If it should cause a problem> Go into task scheduler in windows vista and disable the ASUS ACPI service provider. this should fix your problem.

[Taffycat]

Oh great, thank you Itsme... now that you mention it, I do remember seeing something about ACPI, when I was browsing through the Reliability and Performance Monitor some time ago. Think you have probably cracked it!! Ta very muchly

[itsme]

Your welcome!!