XP/IE

[Felipe]

I have been having problems centred around my internet
explorer in the past couple of days. when i browse the
web, click a link or anything, sometimes my computer just
crashed, i see a blue screen and it reboots automatically.

its been centred around the window/prefech/ folder files
and documents & settings/../temporary internet files. i
have reason to believe it is those directories, because
when checkdisk is run it has those paths in it somewhere.
i have been getting millions of files "truncated" and
such.

i upgraded to xp SP2 last night and things still remain
the same.

any help would be tremendously appreciated.

p.s. when i try to open my "Network Connections" folder
it freezes, then unfreezes and takes a long time to load
it and then no icons appear in the window.

 

[Hans-Georg Michna]

I have been having problems centred around my internet
explorer in the past couple of days. when i browse the
web, click a link or anything, sometimes my computer just
crashed, i see a blue screen and it reboots automatically.

its been centred around the window/prefech/ folder files
and documents & settings/../temporary internet files. i
have reason to believe it is those directories, because
when checkdisk is run it has those paths in it somewhere.
i have been getting millions of files "truncated" and
such.

Felipe,

that's a severe low-level error, probably even hardware. The
disk may be failing.

I would run a disk test program. If you don't find any, run
chkdsk and enable surface checking. If you get errors, the most
likely cause is that your hard disk is, indeed failing.

Back up whatever you still can.

Then test the disk in another computer. It could be the disk
controller, the motherboard, a cable, the power supply after
all.

Hans-Georg