NOW HARDLY EVER

get TUNEUP utilities program

does not cost much

even bought a licence for my son.

Run it regularly and was amazed at the number or errors in registry etc that it fixed and also how soon other errors became apparent and agin are fixed ..fast and efficient..

Clear a problem but where is the cause ??

anyone know.

Do defraged the registry and all othe anti this and thats
constantly, monthly, run through a schedule of cleanup routines.

The only item that I cannot sort, the cause, ? is my mouse pointer will suddenly jump accross the screen and becomes useless.
Can get it back with use of Ctrl+double click righ button or Ctrl+ dble click left.SOMETIMES

NOW HARDLY EVER

get TUNEUP utilities program

does not cost much

even bought a licence for my son.

Run it regularly and was amazed at the number or errors in registry etc that it fixed and also how soon other errors became apparent and agin are fixed ..fast and efficient..

Clear a problem but where is the cause ??

anyone know.

have defraged the registry and all othe anti this and thats
constantlr, monthly, run through aschedule of cleanup routines.

The only item that I cannot sort, the cause, ? is my mouse pointer will suddenly jump accross the screen and becomes useless.
Can get it back with use of Ctrl+double click righ button or Ctrl+ dble click left.

If an application window is at full screen size, and the X button
is clicked on to close the app, the following happens......

Mouse cursor is free to move around the desktop.
Nothing responds to any clicking.
Pressing CTRL ALT DEL will give you the usual message about a problem
with the system and wait or press any key to return to windows.
If you go back to windows , you are presented with a BLACK screen
with just grey borders. The CLOSE program dialog box may be shown as
a white outline with no contents. The mouse pointer is free to roam
the screen but with no ability to launch anything. The AGP card would
appear to be frozen.
Hardware...Athlon XP1800 , MSI KT3 2RU motherboard,512MB DDR,
ATI Radeon 7500 AGP,ATI Capture card. IBM Deskstar 60GB.
Windows98se
What is causing the problem ?.......
POWER SUPPLY ?
NO... I have now a 400W PSU Fitted (300w before )
Temperature ?
NO....I have a CPU temp of 33 degrees and a chassis temp of 27 degrees. I performed a lot of work to get the PC at this low temp
just in case it was heat related.

Operating system?
NO.... I have many disk drives with 98 and XP in many flavours.
It can happen with any OS on any disk with any of the original drivers
or any upgraded catalyst drivers.

Motherboard ?....unlikely.
I performed many clock fsb and bios tweaks to check timing.
Nothing conclusive emerged.
I have two friends with different PC hardware installations
who have identical problems.

Capture card and or IRQ conflicts...........?

Something I will have to drill down into . Device manager looks
good and both XP and (98SE) are PCI IRQ steering ok.

Whats left ?....
I believe that ATI rush their products to market and do not spend
enough time windowing internal memory/ GPU / DAC timing on the
development item. They make excellent chipsets but very poor cards.
The poor timing windowing will probably explain why the cards work fine in some motherboards (asus) but exhibit random results in many
others. This is only my personal opinion but I will not be buying
an ATI product again.
I would be interested in any follow up comments
Frank.

O and for U with the Compaq. I am fixing one right now that wouldn’t boot properly and would restart and shit. It was ram on this one to. Now I replaced it with Kingston (The most expensive option by far here in Canada being like 5 times the price of regular shit!) but it is all that worked I tried 25 different types of used ram at my friends shop in different configurations and nothing or only recognized 1/2 of it and shit. Anyways long story short I am surprised to hear you’re having problems with the Kingston stuff. If you bought it from a store they will replace it immediately! And it is guaranteed to work with your exact model of Compaq/IBM or whatever that’s why it's so expensive. So make shure U got the right one when you bought it and it sounds like you narrowed it down so try your new ram if you get it SOLO for a while!.

O and for U with the Compaq. I am fixing one right now that wouldn’t boot properly and would restart and shit. It was ram on this one to. Now I replaced it with Kingston (The most expensive option by far here in Canada being like 5 times the price of regular shit!) but it is all that worked I tried 25 different types of used ram at my friends shop in different configurations and nothing or only recognized 1/2 of it and shit. Anyways long story short I am surprised to hear you’re having problems with the Kingston stuff. If you bought it from a store they will replace it immediately! And it is guaranteed to work with your exact model of Compaq/IBM or whatever that’s why it's so expensive. So make shure U got the right one when you bought it and it sounds like you narrowed it down so try your new ram if you get it SOLO for a while!.

After a thorough checking of my memory. I decided to remove the aditional 128 Mb Kingston Technologies memory I put on my Compaq Presario 700. And that's it. The computer has been doing well since then.

Anyways here are a few steps I have tried to fix the random crashes of Windows XP.

First I said I had to identify the problem. Ha ha good fucking luck! I can¡¦t get it to freeze this chick says it does I think she just wants me to come back to her place again. Lol.

So to crash it I tried running SETI@HOME for 100% CPU usage overnight with IE open (7 windows of it) + outlook express and lots of other crap. NOTHING!

Someone else in this post said they yelled at it to scare it and kicked it¡K If you have any luck drop me an E-Mail!

So after that I figured I would throw a few things at it¡K This is what I would do feel free to try this on yours.

First with freezing problems I would look at RAM and over heating of CPU and video cards, (touch em see if there real hot) My video card seemed real hot (more on that later)

1.  Check for thoes Windoze updates. I know you gotta.
2.  Is your computer a brand name? IBM Compaq PC?
If so make shure you can use the OS you are trying to with the motherboard cards Etc¡K Then Get all the updates you can for it. Most important drivers for the motherboard, then onboard lan, vid card everything.

3.  Scan for viruses. Don¡¦t have a virus scanner?
Go here (http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp) it¡¦s free.
4.  Do a disk clean up, prep for next step¡K
5.  Defragment your hard drive.
6.  Run Scandisk (I found bad clusters!) yay ƒº
7.  Update the BIOS (now I have never had a problem with doing it (knock on wood) but I recommend this especially if you are putting XP on an old computer.
8.  Run a test program ( I used sisoft Sandra) Im running through that now and I have not had any problems.
9.  Lastly I said I would mention about that hot video card. I cant find drivers for this Diamond savage4 card by S3 newer the n 2000 or 01 or something like that.
I have also read that there are problems with this under Windows XP or some people have said so on line, (I found this on step 2)

So I have not had it crash yet but if it were to I would try replacing the Video card.

I hope this gives someone resolution to there problem, I want to yell at it now for wasting all my fucking weekend.

Anyways Good luck for what it¡¦s worth and keep at it, you either got a knack for it or ya don¡¦t. [PK]MuffDiver

So anyways I will fix this piece of shit, and I will share any answers that I find here.

I will say however if you know a little about computers then it is a process of elimination. You must define your problem. 1ST!
Then strip everything and add add add untill you have your problem elimated.

Dont just pull random shit outta your case cus you will forget what you did and you arent prooving anything,( trust me im fucking guilty of that!) REMEMBER ELIMINATE the problem don't just move it around. And seroiusly wright the steps you have taken down!!!!
It sucks. But why swap your prob around when you can eliminate piece by piece.

Thats my advice and im gonna try it out :)

Wish me luck I will post when it is done.

You can download Motherboard Monitor from the site below. (MBM) is a tool that will display information from the sensor chips on your motherboard in your Windows system tray. MBM supports a wide range of Chipsets & Sensor Chip combinations.

I also have been told that it may be a heat problem, Yet I am not pretty sure of that.

if you have XP or Windows 2000, click Processes and find "svchost.exe" that is the virus that are infecting your computers... its happening to mine and i am fixing it..

ok have talked to teckie friends and here is the list of suggestions

mechanical fault in hdd will cause this
IRQ conflict
overheating
bios problems

That is, unless I plug the power back into the cable modem and when I do this "BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH" appears and my PC crashes completely.

To get round this, I just shut down the PC whilst the modem is unplugged and then plug the modem back in, reboot the PC and all should be fine.

Only a full time UPS would give you clean power all the time, most of them just switch when there's a power problem. You could use a power conditioner, but I don't think that's your problem.
As for power, the first thing that happens on switching power supplies is they turn the AC to pure DC with a CAP first thing to smooth out any problems, UPS switch over times of 2ms is typical, you can see that in with a 60W light bulb, it blinks.

Before I moved to my new apartment I lived in Hinesville and everything was fine. I never had this problem. Then I brought my computer to my friends house who lives in Marietta and it started having this problem.. Then I brought it back home and again.. worked great.. Then I moved out to Marietta a few months later, to a different apartment and it starts acting up again.

So I'm thinking it has something to do with the power output in this town. Like the plugs arnt outputting a constant voltage or something.. My computer dosn't freeze randomly. It freezes when either memory usage nears its peak, such as when playing any graphics intensive game, using adobe premiere, over-multitasking.. It also freezes if I accidently bump into the desk or shake the desk a little too hard.. this baffles me completely..

I'm running an Geforce 3 ti500.. a lot of people with nvidia cards seem to have this problem.. If we can all narrow it down to what exactly is causing this we can fix this..