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polaris8030
Hi all .. I recently did a fresh install of Windows XP Pro on my
desktop. This time I also installed SP2 right after install. Until then
I had XP Pro with SP1.
I noticed that my PC would hang .. sometimes 30 mins from power-up,
sometimes after 10-12 hours. Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work so I had to
power cycle every time.
Now my PC is also not the latest and greatest, so my first thought was
that the mobo or the PCI cards were going out. So I tested memory
(memtest), took out all PCI cards except for the graphics card, all ATA
drives except for the boot drive ... still the system hangs.
Some of the posters have suggested that older processors or older BIOS
's have problems with SP2. That could certainly be my case.
I would like to hear from the experts in this group on what I should
try next. There is no information captured by Windows as to why the PC
hangs ... here I refer to the "Event Viewer" which does not capture
anything of interest. I do see an "acpi error upon boot up, but I think
I have always seen that.
If I run out of ideas to try, I plan to do a fresh install of Windows
XP w/ SP1 and see if at least I can get back to my previous running
condition.
TIA
PC basics
1 GHz Athlon
IWill KK266 mobo
1 GB Corsair SDRAM
desktop. This time I also installed SP2 right after install. Until then
I had XP Pro with SP1.
I noticed that my PC would hang .. sometimes 30 mins from power-up,
sometimes after 10-12 hours. Ctrl-Alt-Del does not work so I had to
power cycle every time.
Now my PC is also not the latest and greatest, so my first thought was
that the mobo or the PCI cards were going out. So I tested memory
(memtest), took out all PCI cards except for the graphics card, all ATA
drives except for the boot drive ... still the system hangs.
Some of the posters have suggested that older processors or older BIOS
's have problems with SP2. That could certainly be my case.
I would like to hear from the experts in this group on what I should
try next. There is no information captured by Windows as to why the PC
hangs ... here I refer to the "Event Viewer" which does not capture
anything of interest. I do see an "acpi error upon boot up, but I think
I have always seen that.
If I run out of ideas to try, I plan to do a fresh install of Windows
XP w/ SP1 and see if at least I can get back to my previous running
condition.
TIA
PC basics
1 GHz Athlon
IWill KK266 mobo
1 GB Corsair SDRAM