Windows XP pro
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Topic: Windows XP pro
Posted By: huwnet
Subject: Windows XP pro
Date Posted: 03 December 2003 at 10:43am
| I have Windows XP pro SP1 with all the latest updates. It has no viruses, etc. However at some random time when it has plenty of memory free it will crash. It is crashs frequently regardless of the program I am running. |
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Posted By: Mart
Date Posted: 03 December 2003 at 10:50am
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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 03 December 2003 at 11:00am
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Crashes in XP are usually due to a driver problem. XP pro on my desktop has not crashed for at least 8 months or more and it's on around 12 to 18 hours a day. I can't even remeber it crashing this year. However, on my laptop the ATI mobility graphics card driver is unstable and courses XP to crash all the time. ------------- https://www.webwiz.net/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - Web Wiz Forums Hosting https://www.webwiz.net/web-hosting/windows-web-hosting.htm" rel="nofollow - ASP.NET Web Hosting |
Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 03 December 2003 at 11:06am
| Do you think it could be my graphics card that is crashing as if I play music and the then the computer crashes the music keeps playing! |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 03 December 2003 at 11:47am
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If you have a NVidia Card I can assume so, as I think their latest driver is crap. I've had a few crashes since I upgraded. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: nguyencno5
Date Posted: 03 December 2003 at 1:08pm
| i have the same problem with my ATI PRO 9700 |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 03 December 2003 at 1:56pm
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I also have a problem with Media Player since installing the new driver, if I select multiple video files in a playlist the first one is OK, the second one is way too bright and low res, the third one is good again and so on. It is not the file itself but every other file no matter with which one I start. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 05 December 2003 at 4:01pm
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I had a lot of crashes with ATI 9700 drivers and various versions of DX. Finally have an install that works, but too scared to upgrade to the latest DX. Other thing to check for is bios and chip patches for your motherboard. XP is hard on AGP MB and chipsets that aren't up to snuff. ------------- 
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Posted By: MadDog
Date Posted: 05 December 2003 at 4:10pm
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I had the same problem a while ago when i installed some new hardware. It turned out to be my BIOS was updated and was giving the hardware the same ID. You might want to check to see how old your BIOS is. ------------- http://www.iportalx.net" rel="nofollow"> 
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huwnet wrote:Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 05 December 2003 at 4:50pm
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the master solution: don't use windows XP! ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: michael
Date Posted: 05 December 2003 at 10:02pm
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that is crap, windows xp is still the most stable and usable OS. If you keep your drivers in line then you should not have too many problems. Now consider that 95% of all users have a standard PC and don't play around like some of us and then it'll work just fine. ------------- http://baumannphoto.com" rel="nofollow - Blog | http://mpgtracker.com" rel="nofollow - MPG Tracker |
Posted By: Tegwin
Date Posted: 06 December 2003 at 3:24am
Windows XP is the best thing since sliced bread.!!!  I have never had any problems with Windows XP. I use it at home and work and I give it a hammering in both places, and have yet to see it fall over. ------------- If you dont want my peaches, dont shake my tree |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 06 December 2003 at 7:47am
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I've got XP Pro running 4 different DB servers, 4 web servers, 3 web app servers, and a slew of different development environments. Some of it took a little tweaking, but my Linux and Free BSD boxes would hae gagged and rolled belly-up long ago. The Video card problem was fixed by upgrading the poorly written chip set drivers, MB bios, and ATI Drivers - not by fixing XP. The ATI 9700 was a technology jump. The technologies that support video on pc's was caught out of step. *nix systems are notorious for only supporting specific drivers. If there's none available for your card, you're sol. -------------
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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 07 December 2003 at 2:05am
| It is definetly a driver because the music will carry on playing. Who knows what I will do. It crashed using the original set of drivers before I installed anything. So know, it has the most up-to-date drivers and bios it still crashes. |
Posted By: pmormr
Date Posted: 07 December 2003 at 12:24pm
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call the company that made your sound card and get a driver for xp ------------- Paul A Morgan http://www.pmorganphoto.com/" rel="nofollow - http://www.pmorganphoto.com/ |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 07 December 2003 at 3:19pm
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Sounds like it might be the sound card... cople of things to try... 1. If your motherboard supports sound on the board, make sure it is disabled in the bios when using a sound card. 2. Check the IRQ settings. sometimes a sound card will share an irq with something else. If that's the case, move either the sound card or the other thing to a different slot on the mb.
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Posted By: wistex
Date Posted: 07 December 2003 at 7:11pm
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Actually, I just realized that my Windows XP has never locked up on me! But I have had to reboot is several times because it was acting stange. And it doesn't always shut down all the way. and sometimes it... Well, maybe it's not perfect after all. ------------- http://www.wistex.com" rel="nofollow - WisTex Solutions http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums" rel="nofollow - CaribbeanChoice Forums |
Posted By: BoLt
Date Posted: 11 December 2003 at 10:33am
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Sounds like you will have to take it to a good old PC shop for diagnostics on the hardware. XP Works well and it’s the 2nd time Microsoft, Yes Microsoft has got something worth it’s salt. 1st time was Windows 3.11 as I could destroy and rebuild it no probs. I would recommend XP big time. ------------- BoLt (Computer Engineer) I suffer from Dyslexia, it means I can not spell to well not that I am thick. www.welshlens.co.uk |
Posted By: dpyers
Date Posted: 11 December 2003 at 4:44pm
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forgot about all the teerrible things I used to do with 3.11. You're right about nothing hardy between it and XP. -------------
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