Why would Windows crash ...

[sWiZzLe]

Only when i'm not using it?

I don't get it, i've been having problems with it locking up, but now it only seems to do so if im not using it.

I have disabled the screen saver and all power saving options. I'll go down stairs to get a drink, when i return its totally locked up

Any ideas on what could cause this? I have only recently done a clean install

Cheers

 

[sWiZzLe]

XP64, i think something may be wrong with my hard disk, in the process of backing it up. Gonna delete the partitions, run some tests and reinstall everything.

 

[sWiZzLe]

I think it all started when i put Vista64 on it, and it messed up the boot indentifier thingy (where it specifies partition 1=xp, 2=xp64 etc). After installing Vista i had to edit these to get xp and xp64 back. Before that it was working fine.
Somewhere along the line the partition or something got damaged, i loaded up Partition magic and it couldn't load up of view and of the hard disk so i decided to back everything up, delete all the partitions and start over.
Reinstalled xp and xp64 last night, using xp64 now and not a single problem so far