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**Kyle** · April 1st 07, 05:41 AM posted to alt.os.windows2000,alt.comp.mainboards.abit

"Stephen" wrote in message
...
| On 31 Mar 2007 03:18:39 -0700, had a flock of
green
| cheek conures squawk out:
|
| My computer often sort of freezes when I'm moving it (even with
just a
| few millimeters motion, e.g. when I'm vacuuming around it). The
| symptoms are similar to when a process takes up 100 % of CPU: very
| slow responses to my commands - sometimes even a few minutes (the
| mouse can be moved around normally, though, and pressing NumLock,
| ScrollLock, CapsLock on the keyboard reacts immediately); also,
some
| processes or applications cannot be shutdown, and you cant' really
| start another application - you get a dialog box and a logged
event:
|
| Event Type: Information
| Event Source: Application Popup
| Event Category: None
| Event ID: 26
| Description: Application popup: xxxxx.exe - Application Error :
The
| application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000142). Click on OK
to
| terminate the application.
|
| I've done some extensive RAM testing, but both sticks seem to be
all
| right.
| The mainboard is Abit IS7-V2, running Windows 2000 Professional.
CPU
| is Intel Celeron D320 2.4 GHz.
|
| What could be the cause for this and how to remedy the situation
| (apart from leaving the box intact while on)?
|
| Static electricity.
| Power plug not in completely.
| Bad connection somewhere.

Add to the list poor electrical contact at the crimp locations for the
Molex HD power connector pins, which caused intermittent HD problems
with one system I worked on. It sure sounds like a poor electrical
connection somewhere, or even more nightmarish, a broken circuit board
runner that is making and breaking in response to mechanical movement
causing flexing of the circuit board.
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Best regards,
Kyle