Hi Bob,
I'll answer inline
What are the specs for your PC and what version/language of Windows are
you using, including the graphics card.
Specs are= Chaintech CT-9PJL2 motherboard with Intel 865PE+ICH5 chipset
that supports Hyper-Threading, with onboard
5.1 channel audio, RTL8100c 10/100Mb fast ethernet
controller.
Intel socket 478 with 2.4 ghz P4 800Mhz fsb, 512mb
of PC3200 ultra memory.
Geforce 5700LE agp video card with 256 mb of memory.
80gb Hitachi/IBM Deskstar PATA harddrive as master
on the primary IDE and the same type drive
on the secondary IDE bus as slave, with a Benq DVD
burner as master.
I'm using Windows XP Home Edition, US english, with
SP2, and all the updates installed. This particular install is about 1 year
old.
From your Windows event log can you copy/paste the details of the errors?
I cannot copy and paste from my event viewer, but
the only event that pertains to Office 12 is the one I received when I first
installed
Office 2007, and that was for the registration that
failed many times but finally did register.
When you had those crashes did you get the 'an error has occured' dialogs
at all so that the reports on the crash data were
transmitted to Microsoft by that error reporting tool?
No, no error messages, and as I said, once the blue
screen came up my machine locked up, so I doubt it had a chance to dump any
info to Microsoft.
What other software, utilities antivirus, etc are you running in your
normal use?
I have Microsoft Location Finder running with
Microsoft AntiSpyware, Picasa 2, Ouick Time, Winzip Quick Pick all runnig at
boot up.
I do not have any anti virus installed.
My computer did crash once more after I uninstalled Office, and that
happened while I was defragging the hard drive, but it didn't go into a blue
screen, it just rebooted while defragging.
Since then I have successfully defragged the hard drive and have been using
the computer for well over 16 hours without a hitch.
I'm going to do a clean install of XP on another hard drive and then install
Office 12 as well and we'll see if I have the same problems.
As a side note, I thought my hard drive was going bad because of the
crashes, so I ran some diagnostics on the drive in question and it passed
with flying colors, so I'm really stumped as to why Office is crashing my
computer.
Regards
sandsman