WIN AP HANGS

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Leroy

{Imy system keeps crashing each time I attemp to post so this may be a
third post!]

System WINXP Pro, GA-8knxp w/current drivers and BIOS upgrades, 1G
RAM, 60M and 200M drives, Sony DVD writer w/ current firmware, LG DVD
player, Soundlaster Live, XP SP2 with current patches, USB
Intellimouse, Leadtek TV200 XP Deluxe, NAV 2005 (now unistalled),
Nvidia FX5600.

I upgraded to SP2 this past summer, that broke my video capture driver
for the crossover bar. I updated Nvidia video and Leatek video
capture drives with post SP2 drivers, had to reinstall sound drivers,
did mouse driver while I was at it -- all had reported problems since
SP2. No hardware problems are reported or listed by device manager
now.

I am getting many system hangs with HD red lihgt, some with STOP blue
screens of death: 0x000000f4, 0000000077 , 0x0000007a. Something is
hosed, either hardware or software. See
http://aumha.org/win5/kbestop.php Event viewer lists many problems
since the crashes started. Most of the messages are useless. Don't
know which that is my problem. Read lots of Microsoft help pages for
stop codes. It could be boot sector virus, controller failure, ribbon
cable failure, corrupt pagefile, etc

Deleted pagefile.sys and regenerated it still crashes. Ran Chkdsk /r
from recovery console many times. Fixed the boot record from the
Windows Recovery Console, for good measure. Still crashes.

I couldn't complete a NAV 2005 system virus scan without a crash.
Norton's online system diagnostic said that WMI was not installed by
NAV 2005. I could not get LiveUpate to install whatever the diagnostic
wanted. Updated LiveUpdate with an FTP download from Symantec. It
still would not install the necessary WMI component according to
Symantec's online diagnostic. Ran online web based virus scan at
Norton, did not find anything.

Removed Norton AV 2005 and reinstalled NAV 2003 (it installed the WMI
component properly - odd). Still system crashes mid virus scan. I
uninstalled NAV, system still crashes with a 0x000000F4 crash during
TV viewing from TV card. I can run spyware system scans without a
crash or do a defrag without a crash.

Until I am clear on the cause I do not want to do a reinstall XP
unless I eliminate a hardware problem exists.

Any thoughts? Thank you!

Leroy
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