The app appears with a frame, menus, buttons at the top, and then in about
one minute disappears. How do I get it back on its feet?

I had some problems with my machine this morning. WinXP. Power cord loose,
and possibly some internal power plugs. I went up and down about 3-4 times
before I squared away loose plugs and maybe boards.

It would go down and issue a reboot problem. Sometimes it would just reboot
and come back with the login prompt, then crash later. The last time it did
it, I tightened up plugs, and boards. It's been stable for two hours. I had
enough time to back up some photo, word, and other files I've created in the
last 2 months. It gave me a couple of severe warnings. I took pix. I'll
bring two of them up on my camera LCD and give a short description. Here:

1. A process thread or critical operation has been shutdown to prevent
damage to your computer.
....
Beginning dump of physical memory.

2. ...
Primary slave drive fails
Press F1 to continue.
....
I rebooted at this point after tightening up connections.

Perhaps System Restore will save my bacon. Maybe I don't have SR points.
I've never really used it. System Properties shows I do not have the "Turn
off SR to all drives" box checked.

We've no idea really. Might ask the application developer or possibly
reinstall the application.


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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect


"W. eWatson" wrote:
> The app appears with a frame, menus, buttons at the top, and then in about
> one minute disappears. How do I get it back on its feet?
>
> I had some problems with my machine this morning. WinXP. Power cord loose,
> and possibly some internal power plugs. I went up and down about 3-4 times
> before I squared away loose plugs and maybe boards.
>
> It would go down and issue a reboot problem. Sometimes it would just
> reboot and come back with the login prompt, then crash later. The last
> time it did it, I tightened up plugs, and boards. It's been stable for
> two hours. I had enough time to back up some photo, word, and other files
> I've created in the last 2 months. It gave me a couple of severe warnings.
> I took pix. I'll bring two of them up on my camera LCD and give a short
> description. Here:
>
> 1. A process thread or critical operation has been shutdown to prevent
> damage to your computer.
> ...
> Beginning dump of physical memory.
>
> 2. ...
> Primary slave drive fails
> Press F1 to continue.
> ...
> I rebooted at this point after tightening up connections.
>
> Perhaps System Restore will save my bacon. Maybe I don't have SR points.
> I've never really used it. System Properties shows I do not have the "Turn
> off SR to all drives" box checked.

Dave Patrick wrote:
> We've no idea really. Might ask the application developer or possibly
> reinstall the application.
>
>
I posted this to the wrong group. XP. Anyway, I'll see if there's a clue there.

Dave Patrick wrote:
> We've no idea really. Might ask the application developer or possibly
> reinstall the application.
>
>
I posted this to the wrong group. XP. Anyway, I'll see if there's a clue there.

In news:h6pn7k$t7m$(E-Mail Removed),
W. eWatson <(E-Mail Removed)> typed:

> The app appears with a frame, menus, buttons at the top, and then in
> about one minute disappears. How do I get it back on its feet?
....
> 1. A process thread or critical operation has been shutdown to prevent
> damage to your computer.
> ...
> Beginning dump of physical memory.
>
> 2. ...
> Primary slave drive fails

Obviously, you have a drive failure, and the application has some esential
data that were stored there, without which it can't continue.

Replace the drive, restore the data from your most recent backup (of course
you have a regular backup discipline?) and continue using the application.