XP PRO HANGS (2nd posting)

[Leroy]

[This may be a second post. The computer hung up just as I pushed the
post button to post the first message.]

System WINXP Pro, SP2 with current patches, NAV 2005 (now
uninstalled), Intel P4 2.6 HT, Gigabyte GA-8KNXP with current BIOS and
driver updates, 1 G, 60M & 200M drives, Sony DVD writer, LG DVD
player, Leadtek TV 2000, XP Deluxe, Soundblaster Live Platinum, USB
Intellimouse Explorer Trackball, Nvidia FX5600, etc

I upgraded to SP2 this past summer, that broke my video capture driver
for the crossover bar. I have since updated video and video capture
drivers with post SP2 drivers, had to reinstall sound drives, did
mouse 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 light on, 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 what my problem is. Read lots of Microsoft help pages for stop
codes. It could be a boot sector virus, bad ribbon cables,
controller, corrupt pagefile, etc.

Deleted pagefile.sys. It generated a new one, system 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 a WMI component was not
installed by NAV 2005. I could not get LiveUpate to install whatever
the diagnostic wanted. I updated LiveUpdate via an FTP download from
Symantec. It still would not install the necessary WMI component
according to Symantec's online diagnostic. The Norton on line WEB
based virus scan found no viruses.

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 or a HD
defrag without a crash.

Until I am clear on the cause I do not want to do a reinstall XP
unless I have eliminated a the possibility that a hardware problem
exists.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.

Leroy
(no email addressposted - please respond via this newsgroup thread.
Thank you again.]

 

[me]

Try the Microsoft memory testing utility at
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

Good luck

 

[Guest]

After lots of research, diagnostics and such, it looks
like it was dust in the case or a loose part.

I pulled the computer apart, vacuumed it out (there was a
lot of dust on one memory stick that was adjacent to the
processor) and reseated EVERYTHING. When I rebooted, I
got a checksum BIOS error and an immediate reboot that set
the computer BIOS back to factory defaults. I corrected
the BIOS setting, the computer has run smoothly for a
day. Too soon to declare victory but all signs are good.

WISH ME LUCK!

-----Original Message-----
Try the Microsoft memory testing utility at
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

Good luck

-----Original Message-----

System WINXP Pro, SP2 with current patches, NAV 2005 (now
uninstalled), Intel P4 2.6 HT, Gigabyte GA-8KNXP with current BIOS and
driver updates, 1 G, 60M & 200M drives, Sony DVD writer, LG DVD
player, Leadtek TV 2000, XP Deluxe, Soundblaster Live Platinum, USB
Intellimouse Explorer Trackball, Nvidia FX5600, etc

I upgraded to SP2 this past summer, that broke my video capture driver
for the crossover bar. I have since updated video and video capture
drivers with post SP2 drivers, had to reinstall sound drives, did
mouse 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 light on,

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 what my problem is. Read lots of Microsoft help pages for stop
codes. It could be a boot sector virus, bad ribbon cables,
controller, corrupt pagefile, etc.

Deleted pagefile.sys. It generated a new one, system 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 a WMI component was not
installed by NAV 2005. I could not get LiveUpate to install whatever
the diagnostic wanted. I updated LiveUpdate via an FTP download from
Symantec. It still would not install the necessary WMI component
according to Symantec's online diagnostic. The Norton

on
line WEB

based virus scan found no viruses.

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 or a HD
defrag without a crash.

Until I am clear on the cause I do not want to do a reinstall XP
unless I have eliminated a the possibility that a hardware problem
exists.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.

Leroy
(no email addressposted - please respond via this newsgroup thread.
Thank you again.]



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[me]

Well, I was wrong.

This past Saturday XP Pro went back to being in a VERY
unstable state - hanging or crashing repeatedly, failing
to fully shutdown. I searched for other hardware related
issued and looked at the IRQs. I found that the two
devices that had been giving me the most grief since the
installation of SP2, my AGP video adapter and my video
capture card, shared an IRQ - bad XP!

I moved the video capture card to another PCI slot. Now,
after a day and a half of steady and hard use, I can
report no hangs, no crashes and proper shutdowns.

WISH ME LUCK!

-----Original Message-----
After lots of research, diagnostics and such, it looks
like it was dust in the case or a loose part.

I pulled the computer apart, vacuumed it out (there was a
lot of dust on one memory stick that was adjacent to the
processor) and reseated EVERYTHING. When I rebooted, I
got a checksum BIOS error and an immediate reboot that set
the computer BIOS back to factory defaults. I corrected
the BIOS setting, the computer has run smoothly for a
day. Too soon to declare victory but all signs are good.

WISH ME LUCK!

-----Original Message-----
Try the Microsoft memory testing utility at
http://oca.microsoft.com/en/windiag.asp

Good luck

-----Original Message-----

System WINXP Pro, SP2 with current patches, NAV 2005 (now
uninstalled), Intel P4 2.6 HT, Gigabyte GA-8KNXP with current BIOS and
driver updates, 1 G, 60M & 200M drives, Sony DVD

writer,
LG DVD

player, Leadtek TV 2000, XP Deluxe, Soundblaster Live Platinum, USB
Intellimouse Explorer Trackball, Nvidia FX5600, etc

I upgraded to SP2 this past summer, that broke my

video
capture driver

for the crossover bar. I have since updated video and video capture
drivers with post SP2 drivers, had to reinstall sound drives, did
mouse 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 light on,

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 what my problem is. Read lots of Microsoft help pages for stop
codes. It could be a boot sector virus, bad ribbon cables,
controller, corrupt pagefile, etc.

Deleted pagefile.sys. It generated a new one, system 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 a WMI component was not
installed by NAV 2005. I could not get LiveUpate to install whatever
the diagnostic wanted. I updated LiveUpdate via an

FTP
download from

Symantec. It still would not install the necessary

WMI
component

according to Symantec's online diagnostic. The Norton

on
line WEB

based virus scan found no viruses.

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
or a HD

defrag without a crash.

Until I am clear on the cause I do not want to do a reinstall XP
unless I have eliminated a the possibility that a hardware problem
exists.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.

Leroy
(no email addressposted - please respond via this newsgroup thread.
Thank you again.]



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