windowsxp

[luckeyo]

I recently had to replae the motherboard on my computer and installed
the windowsxp system that was on my old computer. The system (a clean
install) would run for a day or two and then programs would become
fouled up. For example one of the failures was that the auto protection
of Norton System Works would become disabled. I would reinstall the
program and the protection would stay on until I restarted the machine
and then the same failure would repeat. I reloaded the system
(windowsxp)on four ocasions and it would run for about 2 or 3 days and
something else would fail. On the fifth time I rebuilt the system (clean
Install)using an upgrade version of windows xp. I updated it with SP2
and all of the windows xp updates and the system has been running fine
for two weeks now.

My uninformed assesment of the situation is that the XP version that I
had on the old computer was faulty. I had several programs fail on that
computer and was rebuilding the system with a clean install every two or
three months. I questioned the store where I got the Windows disk from
(where I bought the original computer) and they really didn't have a answer.

Has this ever hapened in your experience?

Thanks

Luckeyo

 

[T. Waters]

I recently had to replae the motherboard on my computer and installed
the windowsxp system that was on my old computer. The system (a clean
install) would run for a day or two and then programs would become
fouled up. For example one of the failures was that the auto
protection
of Norton System Works would become disabled. I would reinstall the
program and the protection would stay on until I restarted the machine
and then the same failure would repeat. I reloaded the system
(windowsxp)on four ocasions and it would run for about 2 or 3 days and
something else would fail. On the fifth time I rebuilt the system
(clean Install)using an upgrade version of windows xp. I updated it
with SP2
and all of the windows xp updates and the system has been running fine
for two weeks now.

My uninformed assesment of the situation is that the XP version that I
had on the old computer was faulty. I had several programs fail on
that computer and was rebuilding the system with a clean install
every two or three months. I questioned the store where I got the
Windows disk from (where I bought the original computer) and they
really didn't have a answer.

Has this ever hapened in your experience?

Thanks

Luckeyo

No personal experience, but you can get another disk from MS at a nominal
cost:
How to Replace Lost, Broken, or Missing Microsoft Software or Hardware
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;326246

 

[Harry Ohrn]

I would be inclined to think your problem is hardware related. Perhaps bad
sectors on the hard drive. Have you tried running chkdsk /r

 

[luckeyo]

I replaced the drive before I updated the windowsxp with a sata drive and
had the same trouble

Thanks Luckeyo

I would be inclined to think your problem is hardware related. Perhaps bad
sectors on the hard drive. Have you tried running chkdsk /r

--

Harry Ohrn MS-MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp

I recently had to replae the motherboard on my computer and installed the
windowsxp system that was on my old computer. The system (a clean install)
would run for a day or two and then programs would become fouled up. For
example one of the failures was that the auto protection of Norton System
Works would become disabled. I would reinstall the program and the
protection would stay on until I restarted the machine and then the same
failure would repeat. I reloaded the system (windowsxp)on four ocasions
and it would run for about 2 or 3 days and something else would fail. On
the fifth time I rebuilt the system (clean Install)using an upgrade
version of windows xp. I updated it with SP2 and all of the windows xp
updates and the system has been running fine for two weeks now.

My uninformed assesment of the situation is that the XP version that I
had on the old computer was faulty. I had several programs fail on that
computer and was rebuilding the system with a clean install every two or
three months. I questioned the store where I got the Windows disk from
(where I bought the original computer) and they really didn't have a
answer.

Has this ever hapened in your experience?

Thanks

Luckeyo