Re: System with SP2 Stops responding

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From: Colin Barnhorst (colinbarharst_at_msn.com)
Date: 10/21/04 

Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 23:46:56 -0600

He may have a hardware problem, possibly a weakening power supply. Check to
make sure that the video and memory cards are seated correctly. 

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"Don-in-Abq" <DoninAbq@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:36D23AED-2526-4A2A-A494-E9E06C800C14@microsoft.com...
> lI have a friend with a problem.  He is running XP Home with SP1.  He 
> ordered
> SP2 on a Cd and installed it on his machine.  Occasionally his system will
> hang.  He can make it to the logo screen and sometimes to the desktop then
> everything stops.  No Cntrl-alt-delete, nothing.  I had him reformat his 
> hd
> and reinstall XP Home and SP2 and the problem returned.  The only way he 
> can
> get past this problem when it happens is to do a warm reboot.  Sometimes 
> it
> takes him three reboots before everything is up and running.
> He has an Abit mb with a AMD Athlon XP200 cpu and 512mb of RAM.
> Suggestions???

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