From: "Robert G Lewis" 

Just a wild thought

Safecast , I don't think TurboTax DeInstall removes it , also doesn't
safecast write something into sector 32 ?

Bob Lewis

"relayPoint"  wrote in message
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> Here's one for you folks. This one's stumped the great Geo even..
>
> Windows 2000. TBird 750. KT133 board. Has operated flawlessly since
> day one. Installed TurboTax. Deinstalled and cleaned out the registry
> and the DRM. (Repaired installation, yadda.)
>
> On random occasions, I press Ctrl-Alt-Del to lock the system, and it
> just hangs. Goes to the background image and hangs there. Twenty
> minutes later I'll get a dialog "Unknown Hard Error [OK]" Click the
> OK, nothing. Twenty minutes later it comes right back. Sometimes
> preceeding this, Explorer stops responding, but I can switch between
> applications and use them normally. It's simply Explorer that won't
> respond to anything. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del then will bring up the
> Unknown Hard Error within 10 minutes.
>
> Anyone have ANY clue? I've gone over ALL the hardware in the system
> twice, the cables three times, and I can find NOTHING wrong. I've run
> everything I can think of. I've defragged. I've chkdsk'd. I've run IBM
> DFT. (All drives in the system are IBM. DJNA and 120GXP.) Nothing at
> all wrong. All the system files checked out with SFC. I ran Windows
> Update. Checked for driver conflicts. Everything.
>
> It's not getting any more or less frequent, or predictable. Completely
> random. Does anyone know what the hell is going on with this thing?
>
> _rP
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