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I tried deleting and re-creating the windows partition, installed XP with no problems, installed SP2 with no problems. Computer freezing up problems - posted in Windows XP, 2000, 2003, NT. I built a computer for my brother 2 years ago and its running XP Pro.
I waited for 5 minutes but it kept freezing right there. It stopped at 'Setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration'. Maybe its my surfing habits, i really don't know. Windows XP freezing up (too old to reply) plazticsoul 15:07:27 UTC. Hard reboot with Windows XP setup CD in the CD-ROM tray.
They are much less system intensive and seem to do just as good a job.įunny thing is i have no AV on this computer to see if anything could affect it and i have not run across any bad software yet. I have run AVG and lately been running Avast. Nortons was doing a good job of locking up my computer at times. Recently, my iMac has been acting up by randomly crashing and then beeping 3 times loudly 3 times when I try to start up the computer.
The Mac will get into the reboot sequence again with a beep, notifying that the PRAM has been reset. I no longer like Nortons, or McAfee for Anti-virus software. wordt meestal veroorzaakt door onjuist geconfigureerde systeeminstellingen of onregelmatige vermeldingen in het Windows-register. The beeping can mean a hard drive failure or unseated RAM.
I have run zone alarm free firewall for years without problems. You can get the floppy version if you have the floppy drive, otherwise make a cdrom version and run it. Look for a red mark around the time you get the lockups.ĭownload memtest '86 and run it as the memory may be causing the problem. You can also look in your event viewer to see if there is any problem there. Usually with 2 programs open my memory use is around 335MB. Anything very high all the time is suspect. then went to a blue screen that just says windows xp and has the microsoft logo and then it froze right there. when I went to turn it on today it went to the windows xp screen with the moving green bar like always. The first place i look is in windows task manager and see if you are getting any spikes in usage, total memory used, and cpu usage. I have a dell with windows xp home installed on it. It could be a variety of things causing this.