windows XP problem

[AnyBodyKilla]

i have reinstalled windows 3 times now and i can only run my computer for about 10 min after getting into windows before it freezes, no errors, just stop responding and have to flip power supply switch to get a restart, anyone get any ideas on what i should try??

[rikkiwhitehead]

ummmm - try vista - or another xp disc - could be a dll is not installed corectly and crashes when you come to use it.....

[Timbe_]

take of your internet cable... and install sp3 before getting to the big world of internet! U get virus instantly if u dont have protection in xp! I have installed mine about............ 221 times because of that

[JasonJ]

Could be faulty RAM or faulty RAM Slot. My PC at work works until I use the second DDR channel. Then it gets funky and it sometimes boots and somtimes runs for a while and freezes and sometimes wont boot past windows logo.

Faulty power supply will freeze your PC after it gets warm after maybe 10 minutes. But I guess you can install windows which takes more than 10 minutes.

We had a PC at work that lets us install windows but once that was done it wouldn't work. I tried everything cause we got heaps of spare parts, but it had to be motherboard issue because nothing helped it, so it's in the bin now. RIP

[AnyBodyKilla]

i thinking maybe the hard drive is messed up cause nothing runs hot, dont have anything OCed, SP3 is installed have XP sp3 disk its got me mad only got a 1.4ghz, 1.25gb, laptop dont think LFS will run on it haven't tried it yet though

[shaken_bacon]

i thinking maybe the hard drive is messed up cause nothing runs hot, dont have anything OCed, SP3 is installed have XP sp3 disk its got me mad only got a 1.4ghz, 1.25gb, laptop dont think LFS will run on it haven't tried it yet though

To be honest it may be what JJ said a faulty Ram slot or faulty Ram. My question is, how old is the PC? Maybe well it is time for it to go to computer heaven? Also can you provide a little more information about the PC mother board, Grpahics driver, how much ram, etc?

[AnyBodyKilla]

here is some specs


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the hard drive is about 2 years old lol

its all pretty new still except the video card and hard drive, never overclocked this computer.

[JasonJ]

Another HDD should be easy to find lying around. Try that.

[AnyBodyKilla]

ok found out hard drive is fine but its when i installed my nforce driver for the the motherboard it wont loads windows anymore just stops at the XP logo screen,
i have tried the ones from the disk that came with it and the news ones (8.43) it still does it

not sure what to try ,cause without those drivers i don't have network access with it or USB

computer is running fine if i dont install those drivers but i got 30 days to activate windows lol

[JasonJ]

I wouldn't be worried about 30 days for Windows...

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[AnyBodyKilla]

ok i think i'm good now got network and audio now using an older version of the Asus drivers (8.26) but i have 2 peices of hardware thats not installed now lol not sure what they are