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 Apr 9 2006, 11:26 AM
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Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 2 Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.20GHz 1024MB RAM Corsair PC3200 RADEON 9800 XT SB Live! Audio 2 Western Digital 7200rpm 80+80=160 all that I can think of |
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Apr 9 2006, 04:39 PM
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in your control panel, under administrative tools>event viewer. what do you see under the 3 headings? and errors? likely explorer.exe>not responding. if you had bad ram, you may have some corruption in your os which results in explorer crashing. so either try a repair or perhaps a format. bad ram causes loss in data, so when trying to write back to the hdd, it has some holes, therin lies the "bsod". now that you have good modules, you must try to repair the holes left by the bad ones yo had.
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Apr 9 2006, 08:08 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 12-July 05 Member No.: 26,942 |
Hey, thank you for the help. I checked the admin tools like you said and it all checks out. there are alot of app hangs, and errors. I just reformatted thinking that it might solve the problem, then got the new ram after I had installed windows and installed everything. Is there a way that I can repair windows without loosing everything. I have alot of applications installed and it just takes so long to do. When I reinstalled windows, then I guess that there were holes created there. Thank you
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Apr 9 2006, 11:11 PM
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Forum Addict Group: BC Advisor Posts: 2,609 Joined: 6-November 05 From: Avondale, Arizona USA Member No.: 39,726 |
update the mobo and chipset drivers, then apply sp4 that should solve the app/explorer freeezing
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Apr 10 2006, 06:09 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 12-July 05 Member No.: 26,942 |
I will try updating all the drives, but most of them are up to date. there is no service pack 4 for pro???
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