Greetings-- 



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. 



HTH 



Paul A. Shippert 

School Librarian 

Margaret Brent Middle School 
----- Original Message -----
From: "Russ Cox" <[log in to unmask]> 
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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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