Win XP hangs with HDD light on

[Ernie Schroder]

Mt wife's WinXP pro machine hangs about 6 times/day. She
has a bunch of crap running at startup but I think I've
tried closing all of it without help. The machine has an
AthlonXP-1800 and 512 megs of DDR2700 RAM. The processor is
running at about 55 to 60 degrees C. The RAM has passed
memtest. Each time it hangs, the hard drive activity light
is constantly on and the machine is completely
unresponsive. I can't even ping if from other machines on
the LAN. At one point it looked like the hangs were
occuring every 60 minutes, but I can't confirm that today.
I'm a Linux user so I'm used to having logs and ways of
tracing these things. I haven't used Windows since Win98
and have no idea where to go from here. Thanks in advance
for any ideas you might have.

 

[patricko]

control panel| administrator tools| event viewer
this may show something there

| Mt wife's WinXP pro machine hangs about 6 times/day. She
| has a bunch of crap running at startup but I think I've
| tried closing all of it without help. The machine has an
| AthlonXP-1800 and 512 megs of DDR2700 RAM. The processor is
| running at about 55 to 60 degrees C. The RAM has passed
| memtest. Each time it hangs, the hard drive activity light
| is constantly on and the machine is completely
| unresponsive. I can't even ping if from other machines on
| the LAN. At one point it looked like the hangs were
| occuring every 60 minutes, but I can't confirm that today.
| I'm a Linux user so I'm used to having logs and ways of
| tracing these things. I haven't used Windows since Win98
| and have no idea where to go from here. Thanks in advance
| for any ideas you might have.
|

 

[Ernie]

-----Original Message-----
control panel| administrator tools| event viewer
this may show something there

| Mt wife's WinXP pro machine hangs about 6 times/day. She
| has a bunch of crap running at startup but I think I've
| tried closing all of it without help. The machine has an
| AthlonXP-1800 and 512 megs of DDR2700 RAM. The processor is
| running at about 55 to 60 degrees C. The RAM has passed
| memtest. Each time it hangs, the hard drive activity light
| is constantly on and the machine is completely
| unresponsive. I can't even ping if from other machines on
| the LAN. At one point it looked like the hangs were
| occuring every 60 minutes, but I can't confirm that today.
| I'm a Linux user so I'm used to having logs and ways of
| tracing these things. I haven't used Windows since Win98
| and have no idea where to go from here. Thanks in advance
| for any ideas you might have.
|

The only errors I see are apparently at boot:
The DgiVecp service failed to start due to the following
error:
The system cannot find the file specified. ANy idea what
this means?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Make sure you install the latest chipset drivers for the motherboard.

Y.

 

[Rick]

Have you tried a spy ware remover? I used Lava soft Ad ware 6 and it cured
the problem on my wife puter. Apparently what ever spyware she had on there
opened so much junk on start up it used at available resources and made it
lock up .