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   Shadow to bsoerhei@nixspam.online.no   
   Re: Long lasting boot-problem that won't   
   30 Oct 14 12:36:24   
   
   From: Sh@dow.br   
      
   On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 14:57:40 +0100, Bjørn Sørheim   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:55:35 +0200, Steve Hayes   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:14:46 +0100, Bjørn Sørheim    
   >>wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>I got a booting problem on my Acer Xp-machine that I don't understand,   
   >>>and I have had for over half a  year. Which has led me to abandon the   
   >>>machine for most of the time, since it is almost impossible to get   
   >>>through.   
   >>>   
   >>>It may have something to to with the boot disk being almost full? It   
   >>>is a 200 Gb disk, and when the problem started it had maybe less than   
   >>>2Gb free, even 1Gb. The exact number, I'm not shure of. Currently I   
   >>>had about 10 Gb space when I last booted, and have been able to remove   
   >>>3 more since then.   
   >>   
   >>How much RAM does the machine have?   
   >>   
   >>I had a laptop with 250 Mb RAM, and there were some programs that   
   >>automatically updated themselves, becoming more bloated with each update, so   
   >>that the machine ran slower and slower, and would take half and hour to boot,   
   >>and almost as long to shut down, with much swapping to disk as it needed more   
   >>memory.   
   >   
   >2Gb of RAM, so I don't think it is that. Something else.   
      
   	That's a lot of ram. Probably not the problem.   
   	Try eventvwr.   
   	There should be an error in the log  with the approximate   
   timestamp of the crash.   
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