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Tom Richards
Posting an update on my ongoing dilemma:
Machine is a Gateway Performance 1500, circa winter 2000, with a P4 1.5 cpu
and 384 MB of RDRAM. For the past 3 months it locks up. The lockups feature
no error messages, nothing in Event Viewer and no blue screen of death. I've
done 2 clean installs of XP Pro. I've had every piece of hardware out of the
machine (including the cpu, hard drive(s), sound and video cards) with the
exception of the nic card and the mobo. I have a replacement mobo on order
from Gateway and will get it in a couple weeks. I've disabled my second hard
drive too - no help. I replaced my usb printer cable - nope. I've replaced
my scanner cable and pretty much disabled the acanner...um, no. I've removed
the old dialup modem - no relief. I've tried every software fix imaginable.
But a new symptom has presented itself and maybe, just maybe, someone can
post back with an answer? After a lockup, my visited links in IE have
returned to their unvisited color - a real nuisance. I'm ready to throw this
thing out the window. So is the link thing THE clue that will provide THE
answer?
Machine is a Gateway Performance 1500, circa winter 2000, with a P4 1.5 cpu
and 384 MB of RDRAM. For the past 3 months it locks up. The lockups feature
no error messages, nothing in Event Viewer and no blue screen of death. I've
done 2 clean installs of XP Pro. I've had every piece of hardware out of the
machine (including the cpu, hard drive(s), sound and video cards) with the
exception of the nic card and the mobo. I have a replacement mobo on order
from Gateway and will get it in a couple weeks. I've disabled my second hard
drive too - no help. I replaced my usb printer cable - nope. I've replaced
my scanner cable and pretty much disabled the acanner...um, no. I've removed
the old dialup modem - no relief. I've tried every software fix imaginable.
But a new symptom has presented itself and maybe, just maybe, someone can
post back with an answer? After a lockup, my visited links in IE have
returned to their unvisited color - a real nuisance. I'm ready to throw this
thing out the window. So is the link thing THE clue that will provide THE
answer?