Computer With Finance
As often as not, when a Windows based PC "crashes", the problem lies in the RAM. I find RAM can be damaged by a whole range of things, including not properly shutting down the PC before 'killing' it with the wall switch!!
For the sake of this discussion, our DELL is getting close to being crashed now so far as performance is concerned. It's just so slow and MLS takes ages to open. Additionally last week I had to reboot the machine to get a clean start (probably after someone kill-switching the machine) and it actually took half an hour to get Windows up and MLS running. I closed it down properly Friday and it booted up OK Sunday but remains extremely slow operating.
Did the Church specify a particularly retarded CPU/OS mix or is there something uniquely demanding about the MLS-Afaria system? It's tempting to complain to the STS but when I briefly mentioned bad RAM he was oddly non-commital. All this to say, my DELL acted like it was 'crashing' but responded eventually to being: booted up; properly shut down via Windows; re-booted; and MLS being allowed sufficient time to start and get its breath back.
But if the problem is just 'Windows will not load', the cause is very often bad RAM. Windows will NOT load if it doesn't have good RAM.