[Neoluddite2000]

Hi all.

I'm running a Acer Aspire 1690. But that's not the problem you can solve. I am running Windows XP and rountinely (a couple times a day) the computer crashes--it pauses out, no mouse, no keyboard response. Seconds later it makes a little fart noise, possibly from the hard drive turning off.

I power down the computer, and when I turn it back on it runs scandisk, reads a 2-3 error messages, on particular files (usually in folders of applications I was working on like Word, Excel, Firefox). The messages always read: "First allocation unit is not valid. The file will be truncated."

Please help!

[Dan O]

Disable Chkdsk.exe, for details see: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=831426