If you are only running 512 MB RAM I believe that is a big part of your
problem. I always recommend a min of 1GB RAM for Win XP. A Min of 2GB for
Win Vista or Win 7, (XP will not recognize more than 4Gb RAM though.
John Green
PO Box 1301
Los Alamitos, CA 90720-8301
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It's been my experience--especially lately, since my school system purchased
HP computers with ATI video chipsets, that to get the video drivers to
behave nicely with the computer you need to go to support.<insert company
name here>.com to get the drivers that work best with the motherboard of the
computer model, as the company has designed it. This sounds
counterintuitive, now that most video graphics board designers have gone to
a 'unified driver model', but, in my school , we have had HP computers show
the same symptoms you describe, even when updated with the latest drivers
from the chipset manufacturer's site . The work-around (if you can call it
that) is to search the manufacturer's support site for the drivers for the
particular model of computer that is "misbehaving". Apparently,
manufacturers re-write driver software for the various peripherals to 'make
them their own'. Replacing the video company's drivers with the re-written
computer manufacturer's drivers has solved this problem for us. Maybe it'll
work for you.
Paul A. Shippert
School Librarian
Margaret Brent Middle School
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From: "Russ Cox" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 7:53:55 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Win XP freezes
Recovering a Dell Inspiron 8000 (Pentioum 3, 512 MB RAM). It is using the XP
drivers, not the Dell drivers. Device manager shows no problems. Win XP
installs ok, accepts updates. Then will freeze at the Windows splash
screen about half the time. I have swapped RAM, tried a second HDD, removed
the battery. Also freezes in Safe mode. What's the likely problem?
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