Suspicious crashes

[tamaranth]

The PC keeps encountering a problem with "Generic Host Process for Win32 Services". It's happened four times in the last three hours and every time I've had to restart to get my broadband connection back.

The message comes up after about 10 mins logged on (I just sat on the other side of the room and watched it happen without my having touched the keyboard for 5 mins).

I'm only running Firefox and Notetab (under, I'mverysorry, Windows XP). I checked the Micros*ft site re this problem, and there's a patch, but it's not at all recent -- so what I'm suspicious about is the way it's suddenly started happening. Can't think of how it could be caused by having unplugged and moved the PC, then moved it back, and that's all that's changed since Before Problem.

Any ideas? Virus? Physical damage? Weird hardware thing? Mercury in retrograde? Absence of cat urine in carpet?

Comments

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

Apple's had batteries and power supplies catching on fire for years - Sony isn't that good at batteries and they supply both.

Linux - that'll be Liam for tech support then ;-)
(miaow)

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

Saucer of milk, dear?

Werk is an enthusiastically Linux site, so tech support should be available at the drop of a penguin. I've had very few problems with the desktop machine at werk in the last 8 months -- but then, I haven't been using it for fun stuff like web, multimedia etc.