random freeze crash win xp

[Guest]

hy

I am experciencing the most annoying problem thus far. My computer crashes randomly...it freezes up completly. Somewhere I read it was named an infinite loop...

My mouse won't move, the sound keeps repeating itself and only a hardware reset helps. It is, as mentioned before, completly random. Otherwise I usually find a patern and can locate the problem, but here it I am clueless

I have two harddisks and two versions of winxp: On one I have an old version of windows xp. It's the version I used before I bought a new harddisk and it's still resident on that disk. That old disk is now set as slave and it doesn't boot up at the moment. I can still boot it up, but than I have to switch the HD from slave to master and it then runs fine...no crashes... with the new HD still active as slave

On the new harddisk, I am experiencing the problem. While the old HD is now set as slave, the new win xp crashes randomly

The drivers are all updated, but that doesn't really matter, cause the problem emerged from the point I started using this new disk (as a master)

Now you might think that it would be a problem with the new hard disk, but when it is set as slave and the old set as master, it runs fine...

I am thinking it could be windows and not a hardware problem, because once I was bruning a cd with Wmplayer and my system crashed... and the cd kept burning and it finalised without a hitch, while I couldn't move anything

any help would be apreciate

thanks

 

[Jym]

Set the hard drives in a configuration that the system does not crash.
Problem solved ! Jym

hy,

I am experciencing the most annoying problem thus far. My computer crashes

randomly...it freezes up completly. Somewhere I read it was named an
infinite loop...

My mouse won't move, the sound keeps repeating itself and only a hardware

reset helps. It is, as mentioned before, completly random. Otherwise I
usually find a patern and can locate the problem, but here it I am clueless.

I have two harddisks and two versions of winxp: On one I have an old

version of windows xp. It's the version I used before I bought a new
harddisk and it's still resident on that disk. That old disk is now set as
slave and it doesn't boot up at the moment. I can still boot it up, but than
I have to switch the HD from slave to master and it then runs fine...no
crashes... with the new HD still active as slave!

On the new harddisk, I am experiencing the problem. While the old HD is

now set as slave, the new win xp crashes randomly.

The drivers are all updated, but that doesn't really matter, cause the

problem emerged from the point I started using this new disk (as a master).

Now you might think that it would be a problem with the new hard disk, but

when it is set as slave and the old set as master, it runs fine....

I am thinking it could be windows and not a hardware problem, because once

I was bruning a cd with Wmplayer and my system crashed... and the cd kept
burning and it finalised without a hitch, while I couldn't move anything.

 

[Guest]

how
what do you mean.... I intend to use the new disk as a master, since it is twice as fast..

should I be using cable select? The problem also accurs when I boot on the new disk, with the old removed

grt

----- Jym wrote: ----

Set the hard drives in a configuration that the system does not crash
Problem solved ! Jy

 

[Guest]

Use one disk (the new one). Make it Master (jumpers), connect and set BIOS accordingly

Device Manager: Make sure all devices are properly installed
Disable Automatic Restart: Right-click My Computer; Advances tab; Startup and Recovery button; uncheck Automatically reboot option; OK to save changes; restart
Check Event Viewer (Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tolls - > Event Viewer) for possible errors

Update your antivirus
Download, install, and UPDATE the following programs

Spybot-S&D (http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
AND (it's AND, not OR
Ad-aware (http://www.lavasoftusa.com/

Disconnect Internet
Restart computer in Safe Mode (see Help (F1) for more information), and
scan it using all these programs, antivirus first

Good Luck

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Low transfat and low carb diet for your pc or
How to optimize Windows XP for the best performance

http://www.rikhard.co

Always keep antivirus and spy removal applications up-to-date, and scan regularly

 

[Guest]

thank, I'll go and try that... especially the run in safe-mode...
Could be intresting. Haven't thought about that one yet

grt

leon0911

 

[Guest]

Check Device Manager and Event Viewer first.

 

[Guest]

i did offcourse.... a long time ago

in my event viewer is nothing to be seen. I never saw an error report at the correct time or date. Like the pc isn't able to write any error report anymore, because of the crash

device manager everything is how it should be

grts