Re: WinXP freezing, hanging up.........

Steve schreef:

"Erwin Moller" wrote:

Steve schreef:
on startup. my sister sent me her Gateway computer, it worked find for a couple of days then earlier this week while I was on the net it just froze up on me, I couldn't use the mouse or anything else. so I rebooted and it froze and continues to freeze up after. every now and then I can get as far as the user account icon.

I'm running WinXP as it says in the Topic title. I have tried to boot from the WinXP installation cd and that hangs up too and it gets to the Windows Setup screen when it is loading files. I have also tried another hard drive with the same results. it also will not boot in the safe mode either.

does anyone have any ideas. if you need more info please let me know
Hi,

Sounds like hardwaretrouble to me.
You might have bad memory or an erratic motherboard or something like that.

To eliminate this possibility I think I would try to boot into another OS, just to check if that runs stable.
eg:
- DOS (if you have diskettes for it)

But first check your BIOS (hit DEL or F2 or whatever), and make sure the BIOS displays all POST messages, so no splash screens.
Make sure BIOS performs a memorytest.


Regards,
Erwin Moller

Erwin, when I boot and hit the del key, I enter the Bios Setup Utitily screen
but that too freezes up.........here is the info under Main if that helps

BIOS Version - GB85010A.15A.0014.P04
Processor Type - Intel Pentium 4
Processor Speed - 130GHz
System Bus Frequency - 100MHz
Cache RAM - 256KB
Total Memory - 512KB
Memory Configuration [Non_ECC]

I don't have another OS but I do have the Performance 1300 System Recovery Disc that came with it. should I try to book with this floppy?

thanks


Hi,

If your computer freezes even when in BIOS.......
Well, that sounds BAD.
Something very basic and important must be broke.

Your problem doesn't seem to have anything to do with your OS, so no repairdisk will help. Bios is low-level.

You CAN try to replace some components with others if that is an option.
Memory would be a good start.

If you want to spend some money on it, you can bring it to your local PC repairman.
In my experience, all the money you spend on it is money gone. You could spend that too on a new machine, and with repaircost easily $50 an hour without garantueed result...

Sorry. I would give up on a machine freezing in BIOS.
(Or at most try replacing memorymodules only from another PC with comparable memory)

Regards,
Erwin Moller
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