Re: Home XP Corrupt?

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From: Cerridwen (cerridwen_at_celticnet.com)
Date: 05/04/04 

Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 16:06:08 +0100

Dan in Tennessee wrote:
> My old CPU crashed and I upgraded to 2.8 P IV, 160 BG HDD
> and a new Soyo mainboard. Now my 2 1/2 year wxp cd may be
> corrupt. crashes arbitrarily 6- 10 times a day and
> restarts by it self - whether I'm on it or it's just
> setting there on line. it refuses to load my norton anti
> virus and nero 6. I have a cable modem and 1GB sddr ram -
> I've replaced everything but the wxp that used to
> hang/freeze once a week before I replaced hardware.
> please help.

Nothing whatsoever to do with your XP CD being 'corrupt' - the answer's
simple - you've ripped the guts out, replaced them and you expect Windows to
work exactly as it did before; well of course it won't! You need to perform
a repair installation at the very least.

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