xp locking on any thing

[gonaads]

You ran scandisk from a 98 startup disk ,so you must have XP on a FAT32 partition. Otherwise it never would have worked cause scandisk for 98 will not work on an NTFS patition. You should refomat with a 98 startup disk then reinstall XP but make sure you let setup convert the file system to NTFS. Then see how everything goes. Your FAT32 partition might be corrupted, bad sectors could be croping up. Maybe the hard drive is going bad but it's suttle. Did you do a surface scan with scandisk? Windows scandisk does not always pick up everything. I had a 42GB IBM DeskStar that was going bad and it was only 8 months old, was doing all kinds of shit to my OS. Also check the ribbon cables connected to your drives for possible probs. Switch them out with other ones.

 

[gonaads]

Another thing that's allways best, at least when I've built a box (and I've done alot... Oh the pain!) is to pull every board out of the box and just leave the mobo, cpu, memory and vid card. If your running SCSI drives then you'll need the controller card also. Then when you install XP you have a minimum of things to check if it's still locking up. But this way if it's working correctly then you can add cards one by one, till you find the culprit. Also don't rule out the mother board.

 

[xsivforce]

As I recently realized. Make sure your bios is updated. Mine wasn't and froze constantly. No freezes since bios update.

 

[ikester7579]

Just thought of something that might help. It was a problem I had about a year ago with win 98 that was simular. The hard drive mode was turned up to high in the bios. Mode 4 when my drive only supportted mode 3. This really caused problem with boot up and file curruption. If your not sure what mode your drives support just turn them down one number. Example: from 5 to 4. This won't hurt anything it just slows the drive down a little. But if it fixes the problem who cares. Also always use ntfs format with xp. I had fat 32 at first had nothing but problems with file curruption. If you have a bad shut down with xp on a fat 32 format you will lose system files! Then your problems will begin! Mine stopped when I converted to ntfs on a clean install. Also you do not have to pull your hardware out one at a time. Just go into your control panel, systems. Hardware, Device manager. Disable the device and reboot! It's just like taking it out without actually doing it. Saves time to. Hope this helps. ikester