Outlook crashed computer!!

[Orcas2369]

I am running Windows XP Home with Office 2003 on a 3 month old Sony VIAO
laptop. I have used Outlook a LOT. I have 900 contacts in multiple folders.
Today I was cleaning out some old addresses and ran across a distribution
list that I no longer use.

----and then the fun began....
clicked on the distribution list just to see what was there before I deleted
it and Outlook froze. CTRL/alt/delete did nothing. After a few minutes
Outlook regained operation so I tried openning the Dist. list again...same
result.
After another few minutes I was able to close Outlook and reopen it. Then
navigated back to the dist list and right clicked and clicked 'open'--

The computer went dark and is unable to reboot.
Nothing has allowed me back into Windows. I get a "system disk failure'
message as soon as it boots. Cannot get to safe mode or anywhere else past
the initial "Viao" screen.

Anyone ever heard of this or have any thoughts?

Thanks all

'Befuddled in Boston'

 

[Pat Willener]

It is unlikely that Outlook caused this. It looks like a hardware
failure that affected Outlook before the system crashed completely.

Have someone professional look at it. Hope you have a backup!

 

[Brian Tillman]

I am running Windows XP Home with Office 2003 on a 3 month old Sony
VIAO laptop. I have used Outlook a LOT. I have 900 contacts in
multiple folders. Today I was cleaning out some old addresses and ran
across a distribution list that I no longer use.

Please don't multipost.