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knowley
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Hi people....again!
I have only just installed XP.
I am finding it is freezing at random times!
eg My girlfriend logged on to check her email and just after the modem connected and it started to recieve the PC froze totally.....and tonight I left it on downloading a couple of files, returned to find it had again frozen, no mouse movement nothing. That was the only thing running apart frm MSN messenger, Zone alarm and matrox power desk.
Has anyone XPerianced anything similar? I thought this OS was supposed to be really stabile!
OR at least recover its self and give some sort of error??
and also it did not register the crash at all when I rebooted...the other windows family used to? is this meant to?
And I have rarely had this problem before installing XP, maybe it froze once a month or so but not twice a day!
Would installing the VIA drivers help? I read somewhere that they are built into XP and theres no real need to install them.
Thanks for any input!!!!!
I am running a KT7 motherboard, Athlon 700, Matrox G400 (latest drivers), Fujitsu usb modem (DSL) with latest drivers, 30GB ata66 HD, 20 GB ata100 HD, 1xcdrom, 1xplextor cdrw x12speed, USB mouse, compaq TFT5005, 384ish MB SDRAM (PC133) Crucial memory, occasional USB ZIP100. SB Live 1024 scound card
I have only just installed XP.
I am finding it is freezing at random times!
eg My girlfriend logged on to check her email and just after the modem connected and it started to recieve the PC froze totally.....and tonight I left it on downloading a couple of files, returned to find it had again frozen, no mouse movement nothing. That was the only thing running apart frm MSN messenger, Zone alarm and matrox power desk.
Has anyone XPerianced anything similar? I thought this OS was supposed to be really stabile!
OR at least recover its self and give some sort of error??
and also it did not register the crash at all when I rebooted...the other windows family used to? is this meant to?
And I have rarely had this problem before installing XP, maybe it froze once a month or so but not twice a day!
Would installing the VIA drivers help? I read somewhere that they are built into XP and theres no real need to install them.
Thanks for any input!!!!!
I am running a KT7 motherboard, Athlon 700, Matrox G400 (latest drivers), Fujitsu usb modem (DSL) with latest drivers, 30GB ata66 HD, 20 GB ata100 HD, 1xcdrom, 1xplextor cdrw x12speed, USB mouse, compaq TFT5005, 384ish MB SDRAM (PC133) Crucial memory, occasional USB ZIP100. SB Live 1024 scound card