This stinks sooo bad. I have to reboot my computer. I don't know what else to do. It freezes if more than one page opens at a time, shuts itself off now and again, sometimes it restarts itself (of course always when your in the middle of something lol).Scanned for virus non are present done cleanups too I think some files were deleted or corrupted...ah well.... Just when I was getting things organized in my runtime :( well sort of anyway lol. I have a question though, when I redo all these many many files, can pp4 read subfolders? Example use a folder called vic3 clothes, but I have clothes from different creators, so inside v3clothes have say a jimbo and bj folder?? Hey I figure if I have to start over I may as well organize from the get go right! This sucks!

AFAIK, P4 & PPP don't read subfolders. You have your library folders (character, pose, hair, ect.) and then you have folders inside them (Daz People, Animals, Articulated Props, ect.) Poser won't use folders inside those folders.

yep you need p5 for the ability to see subfolders in the library

the comp restarting on its own and all sounds like that blaster worm

What's your OS?

Darkelegance I didn't detect a virus I run norton 03 and update it regularly so I don't know. quixote I have windows xp.

xp home actually

Well you might consider restoring to a prior date. You could try reinstalling the OS over the one you have XP permits that. Before doing anything wait for some more suggestions, take your time with this. I had that after the mblast, but my ISP had been attacked. I had to reinstall because my boot registry was corrupt. It could be something as simple as a weakning power supply. Especially if XP tells you that it just recovered from a major error after booting back.

I witnessed similar symptoms when my system's power supply went belly-up. Could also be cooling problems.

Thanks for all the tips, I forgot to mention my video card is messing up too, on start up everything is unreadable and messy a restart sometimes fixes it sometimes many restarts. Perhaps servicing is more in order?

Yes. That may very well be the power supply. When weak there can be a variation in the voltage to the AGP port, XP interprets that as a major error. Sometimes the voltage won't stabalize at start up and therefore you won't get a screen or you'll get garbage and you may even have to re-install your video drivers. That's the first thing you should have checked IMHO. Get a 450 or 480 W it's worth it. Good luck. Q

This could also be a virus, MSBlaster rebooted computer frequently as well, though the freezing web pages is odd. I would get a virus checker and double-check nothig nasty is playing silly sods with your computer. It could be overheating or the power supply. Invest in a decent power supply, lots of wattage and a good fan, also get a fan for the inside of the case (you should have a mounting for one on the back of the case. This helps enourmously. best wishes Jody

When Windows starts acting weird, I often find running the defragmeter follwed by a reboot fixes things.

Foxy, what you just said about your video card makes more sense to me than anything else. It doesn't hurt to pull the card, clean the contacts, and reinstall it. Could be going out though. If you have another card to troubleshoot with, then go for it. Video should NEVER give wierd stuff on startup. If it does, then she's headed south on you.

Also, I get the impression you rarely reboot. If so, you might want to clean up your ram once in a while with rambooster. its free on google. rebooting is good once in a while. Sometimes I even shut down and pull the power cord just to let all those electrons die off for a half hour or so.

In addition to the cooling and power supply, you might also want to check out the memory, when they go bad then you get the puter just shutting off ....I did the other replacements first then finally discovered the memory chip was bad replaced it.

Cooling problems is the first thing that comes to my mind. If your chip is heating up, it will spontaneously reboot. Sorry about all your problems. I've been there. Too many times :o(. Laurie

Foxseelady, You might also chech for updates for your video card and modem. I'[m on XP and Microsft did an update last year that kept kicking me off the web and causing the computer to reboot until I got the associated update for the modem. Microsoft supplies some third party updates - my modem and video card are now both running with ms supplied "third party" updates. - TJ

Check your drive for errors and defragment. 1) Check for Blaster. If you've got it, fix it FIRST. 2) Check the drive for errors and defrag. Make sure you have plenty of free space on your drive. 3) Get a new copy of the video driver. 4) If you have any kind of dust problem in the area of the computer, take the cover off and blow out all the dust (carefully). Dust on a connection can cause some strange problems. If you feel confident pulling cards from the computer, remove, clean, and reinstall. 5) If you still have problems. Stop using it and get it to a PC repair shop. Continued use can make the problem worse. From your symptoms, I'd guess it was the video card shorting out. It could also be a bad hard drive, a short somewhere else in the machine, a bad driver (not just video). Let us know how it goes.... and good luck.

norton didnt catch blaster on my brothers puter at all. he found it when the puter kept shuting down and he took it to the shop...they found it norton didnt. you still may wish to double check for blaster as well as all the other tips

If there has been a time recently that the power in your home went off and back on quickly, you could have gotten a power surge to your system. The power supply, video card would be the first to be hit, then the modem. Spontaneous rebooting on my machines has usually been due to a motherboard going bad and sending our errant signals to the rest of the equipment.

Building in part on suggestions from others this is the order I'd take to check it all out: 0) check inside to see if you have dust built up or you notice anything obvious. You might do this while the computer is unplugged in the first step. with the case still off plug everything back in and boot up and make sure the fans are running. Look listen and smell for anything unusual. don't touch anything while the computer is running. if the visual checks out proceed through the rest of it. if not correct it if you can or get it checked out. 1) with the computer off, check to see that the monitor os firmly plugged in to your video card and that all plugs are correctly plugged in. 2) make sure you didn't accidentially set the video resolution to something wierd 3) Set the syatem restore to a previous point. 4) Check out the AVG6 site they tell you how to manually check for and how to remove the blaster in your registry and windowssystem files. after that checks out 5) Go to windows updates (a google will find it) and let the site scan your computer for system info and check for driver updates. 6) then run chkdsk - you can find out how to access it by the help section in the start menu along those lines WinXPNews had a .bat file you could use to run chkdsk the next time you start your computer . . . if none of that helps then you've more than likely got hardware problems such as Eric and pdxjims wrote. be careful, - TJ

Wow I can't tell you all thank you enough for all your help and suggestions. We did have a short power outage recently due to a storm come to think of it. I tried a restore to earlier date, no help, then I tried rewriting xp without losing my files, screen went black lol I am going to be busy for days checking everything out for sure :0 I did do a complete reboot anyway my computer was hugely cluttered with a bunch of stuff (half of wich no one here knew what it was) So far it seems to be doing okay, but I think I am going to try all the suggestions here just to be sure. Even after all that I'll likely have it checked in a shop just to be sure because I sure don't want to make anything worse!! Thank you again it's wonderful to have so much help for this.

....rule #1.... BUY A UPS!

Rule #2 Make sure the ups works!! Mine is just a very heavy power strip. Battery check out just fine, something inside died.... How much drive space do you have?? I've seen windoze really wig out with too little swap space.

Skip Nortons, use McAffees just my humble preference ( and years of experiance with Norton missing stuff)