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Solve : Activate Windows Screen Freezes (XP) Home ed? |
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Answer» Quote I can't believe it. XP Crashed again. OK, so what happened this time? Loose wiring? RAM/Cards need re-seating? Fans not running? Not only did I reformat, I repartioned first. Then I reformated and did the recovery. I ran and emergency boot CD I found online that does a check on all the hardware. I have gone through xp set up so many times about 8 or 9 times now. I am going to give Microsoft a call back. Emachines still thinks that it is my hardware, maybe the mother board. If this is the case. Why does everything appear fine in safe mode. I went out and bought a certification book for the 70-270 EXAM. Maybe I can get in through sysprep and make changes in the answer files myseslf. Then run the setup right from my harddrive. The sysprep log was saying that there was an error in loading factory.exe. Maybe with this INFORMATION. Windows will let me in on how to get it to work without having to go through emachines. I will never buy a computer again that does not come with the Windows XP set up cds.Quote
I did take everything apart and put it back in, made sure it was tight. Checked all the cords, took out the memory card and put it back in tight. Made sure all of the power cords and wires were in right. Both fans are running, Keyboard and mouse cords are fine. I wonder if it is the ide cord. I should get a new one and see if that is the problem I had the same problem and downloaded a program called win PATROL. It ALLOWED me to configure my start-up processes and I have had no problems rebooting since. Also if you reconfigured your bios did you check the jumpers on the hard drive itself? You might try going back to DEFAULT settings and trying this program its free. And if you install a new program it will ask if you want it running on start up most time you can start programs manually.Quote I wonder if it is the IDE cord. I should get a new one and see if that is the problem. Cord? If you have round ones they can give cross-talk data corruption. The flat 80-wire IDE cables are screened, as 40 of those wires are screening wires. The wire itself has less resistance/better conductivity so they are a little faster. (Every little bit helps.) I am back! Last night I again went through every peice of hardware. On my last check I noticed that the modem was not there. I had took it out to use the pci space for my firewire card. Found the modem, connected it to the phone line, started over with the Factory restore. and we are back up and running. Had a little trouble cleaning up NAV. After reinstalling it the 3rd time, its working. I am almost there. Got to reinstall firewire card, wireless keyboard and mouse and put in the second memory stick, software and find all my backed up files. That book I bought is really good for troubleshooting. My husband (AS400 Programmer)hit the on his first thought. "It sounds like you are missing the connection to the internet." So the activation screen was not responding because of no connection. Why is that 2 company's tech support didn't catch that. Emachines was telling me I had a worm. The files he was talking about in my start up were the nvidia control panel and wizards. I am better now. Thanks for listening! Quote I will never buy a computer again that does not come with the Windows XP set up CDs. Me neither.I wonder why they never made desktop computers more like a TV. Just the one box instead of several. |
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