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OK here is my setup:
I have an athlon XP 2800+ running on my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe. I have 768MB DDR400 Kingston HyperX RAM. My operating systems are set up to run through GRUB2 dually booting WinXP PRO (my favorite OS) and Red Hat 9 (for college learning purposes). I have connected two 200GB WD HDDs. A DVD-RW and CD-RW and ATAPI ZIP 750 and a floppy.
Here is my situation:
I can boot into RH9 just fine, in fact that is where I am typing this info from. When I boot into windows XP PRO I sometimes have my system hang. Other times I can boot into windows passed the welcome screen and almost start an application. Yet other times I can get it to boot all the way through the first program load and even start to put a decent media load onto it before my screen is frozen. I am thinking it has something to do with the Nvidia chipset drivers that included an EIDE driver, but I had this working before. I am really lost here.
Here are my methods of testing component by component:
I tested the HDDs with the WD utilities.
I rewrote zeros to the drives (took like 2 days to do)
Performed 2 Win XP Pro installs (one with Grub and one with just win xp)
I tested the RAM with memtest for 48 hours
I replaced the chip with a known to be good Athlon XP 2000
I checked windows updates, defragged and ran the system clean utility
I ran the system in safe mode with networking and it seemed to work ok for an hour or two.
I disabled all visual affects and set the processor scheduling to run background services.
Running linux right now, I can do it indefinitely. Windows wont.
Any plausible intelligent suggestions on things I could do or test or any ideas at all what my problems could be?
PS I noticed some of these symptoms when I had win xp service pack 2 installed along with the new express visual studio beta. Also the HDD LED seems to indicate heavy activitiy almost constantly while I run winxp and not while in linux.
I have an athlon XP 2800+ running on my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe. I have 768MB DDR400 Kingston HyperX RAM. My operating systems are set up to run through GRUB2 dually booting WinXP PRO (my favorite OS) and Red Hat 9 (for college learning purposes). I have connected two 200GB WD HDDs. A DVD-RW and CD-RW and ATAPI ZIP 750 and a floppy.
Here is my situation:
I can boot into RH9 just fine, in fact that is where I am typing this info from. When I boot into windows XP PRO I sometimes have my system hang. Other times I can boot into windows passed the welcome screen and almost start an application. Yet other times I can get it to boot all the way through the first program load and even start to put a decent media load onto it before my screen is frozen. I am thinking it has something to do with the Nvidia chipset drivers that included an EIDE driver, but I had this working before. I am really lost here.
Here are my methods of testing component by component:
I tested the HDDs with the WD utilities.
I rewrote zeros to the drives (took like 2 days to do)
Performed 2 Win XP Pro installs (one with Grub and one with just win xp)
I tested the RAM with memtest for 48 hours
I replaced the chip with a known to be good Athlon XP 2000
I checked windows updates, defragged and ran the system clean utility
I ran the system in safe mode with networking and it seemed to work ok for an hour or two.
I disabled all visual affects and set the processor scheduling to run background services.
Running linux right now, I can do it indefinitely. Windows wont.
Any plausible intelligent suggestions on things I could do or test or any ideas at all what my problems could be?
PS I noticed some of these symptoms when I had win xp service pack 2 installed along with the new express visual studio beta. Also the HDD LED seems to indicate heavy activitiy almost constantly while I run winxp and not while in linux.