Help me before i kill this computer.

[casper3699]

i found all of the others but cant find the address book.( we have the whole hard drive copied to another hard drive so we can play with the files.)
I found them in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{310811FF-5D3C-47E8-963C-5A4F116067D0}\Microsoft\Outlook Express
On my server it has contacts on a data base but not on the win2k pro box there isnt one.
Thanks for all your help alittlebitnumb and everybody else.
Please keep the help coming.

Originally posted here by X=-FakeBoy-=X
This may be off the subject, but I had a cooling problem where I would get a system up, and it would run for a couple seconds and either freeze or reboot. Unless I left it down for a couple minutes, every time I would reboot it would self reset. Is this similiar to your problem?

kinda but it is only doing this to me on booting the OS. I am reinstalling now and it has been up and hasent restarted or froze yet.
My thought that it might be hardware detection and something during that faze kills it.

hey all. I got it to work now it seems like it was only the OS decided to blow up. Thanks for everyones help.

[problemchild]

My suggestion would be to check the RAM. I've had almost the exact same error on my overclocked T-Bird when I cranked the FSB up too high for the RAM. If Windows gets a memory error like that during boot-up, it will spontaneously reboot. Linux, however, was perfectly stable except for the odd gcc segfault when compiling...... go figure.

[PortSlice]

Yeah, I'll stick with problemchild's post and say to check the RAM. I too had a cooling problem but it was fixed and was sort of similiar to this problem.

[alittlebitnumb]

Now that I am working in Win2k now (I like the OS ), the address book is here:

X:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book

I found them in C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Application Data\Identities\{310811FF-5D3C-47E8-963C-5A4F116067D0}\Microsoft\Outlook Express

That path seems strange. Is that a server value? Just a inquiry.

[paldie]

casper what haas changed with the system? If nothing has changed, how old is the hard drive? I could be memory as everyone is stating but in the last 8 years I have only seen one bad memory module. And once ram was working it seem to just work. It may slao be a bad sector onthe hard drive which is causing a boot failure. If there is a critical file localed in that sector it could just go south. Reloading the OS will/should correct issues with booting. Are you able to boot the system for a boot disk or with a bootable cd-rom. if you are that would lead me to believe it is not a memory issue. since you are starting the boot process again it is something that is loading (or not loading, bad sector) that is causing it to stop