without knowing anything more, i would have to say it is your IRC software.
Herb...
Hello, currently I am having difficulties when I use mIRC. Anytime i try to download to my computer via IRC my computer crashes.
I have 2 partitions on my 120G drive, XP/mIRC is installed on the first and where I download is on the 2nd partition.
It happens when I try to download to the 2nd partition.
I do not know of any problems like this, and I have the VIA 4in1 drivers installed as well.
I am running WINXP PRO - w/out SP1
CPU - Athlon XP 1800+
MB - Gigabyte 7zxe
RAM - 1GB
ATI Radeon 7200 Video Card
HD - 120G Western Digital
80G Maxtor

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