Strange Problem System Crash

[irmo123]

Hi:
I am having a strange problem and ultimately a system crash on my daughter's computer.

The Problem:
While working in Word using documents from a Flash Drive she suddenly gets a warning that her hard drive is full and she needs to delete files to continue. She has an 80G drive with about 30G used. The computer freezes, then has to be restarted. When restarting a blue screen of death error appears that says:

Config_List_failed

Then some instructions, then

STOP 0X00000073(0X00000001, OXc00017D, 0X00000001, XF7A7ABB8)

Dumping Physical Memory

The computer:
Intel Pentium 4 530J Prescott LGA 775 Processor; Gigabyte GA-8I915P Duo(REV 1.1) Motherboard; Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 80GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive; NEC Model ND-3520A BK, CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB SDRAM DDR 400
COOLER MASTER Real Power RS-450-ACLX 450W PSU, Windows XP Home SP2

So, any ideas what's up? I have done a repair install of XP twice to recover the computer. After the first time the computer was fine for a month then it happened again. Same scenario, working docs that had been saved on a flash drive. I looked at the drive. It had 5 system files on it with file names that began with TMP. I deleted them and reformatted the flash drive.

Thoughts?

JB

[glc]

Do not work directly from the flash drive. Copy the files to the hard drive, work on them from there, then copy them back to the flash drive.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291808

[irmo123]

Thanks GLC, I will make sure she does that. Thanks for the microsoft article too.


Question: Do you know why working from the flash causes the system to think the HDD is full? Just curious.

JB

[glc]

I'm guessing that it's using the flash drive to build its temp files, and the flash drive is filling up.