ReadTheHelpFile
December 6th 03, 10:37 PM
Perhaps the windows updates have obsoleted your video
drivers and perhaps you should look for updated winxp
drivers for your video card. Go to the mfr site of your
video card. Don't trust the updated drivers if they
appear on the windows update site. Sure sounds like a
video prob to me.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have WinXP on an hp pavilion ze1115 with an AMD Duron
>1.1 Ghz chip and 256 MB Ram. I have been having a problem
>with this computer just locking up. When it does, nothing
>happens. The mouse does not respond, and no keys respond.
>I can not CTL-ALT-DEL and have to end up powering down. I
>use this computer for application development and I
>thought that it mightbe the IDE that I use and have been
>working the problem from that approach, but today it
>locked up with just the Windows Explorer and MSOE open. I
>was trying to start a third app and had double clicked
>the shortcut on the desktop when it locked up. This only
>started a couple of weeks ago. At first, I thought it
>might have been a power source issue. I was at a
>different location and thought that there might be a
>power issue. Then it happened at home where I had never
>had the problem before. I had recently added a USB
>device, so I uninstalled it, thinking that it might have
>caused problems. But, it started happening more often,
>and I noticed that it was always while working in the IDE
>that I use, so I started looking into that. It is a 16bit
>application, so I set compatibility to Win95, and I also
>checked the box for it to run in its own memory space.
>Nothing seemed to work. Then, it happened when that app
>was not running, so here I am. This computer has always
>been updated with the auto update feature. I always
>install the latest updates. It also has Norton Antivirus
>running on it, and I always accept the live updates for
>that as well. This computer has been running for close to
>a year without any problems and it has always been used
>the same way.
>
>Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Steven Hill
>Martin GA, USA
>
>.
>
drivers and perhaps you should look for updated winxp
drivers for your video card. Go to the mfr site of your
video card. Don't trust the updated drivers if they
appear on the windows update site. Sure sounds like a
video prob to me.
>-----Original Message-----
>I have WinXP on an hp pavilion ze1115 with an AMD Duron
>1.1 Ghz chip and 256 MB Ram. I have been having a problem
>with this computer just locking up. When it does, nothing
>happens. The mouse does not respond, and no keys respond.
>I can not CTL-ALT-DEL and have to end up powering down. I
>use this computer for application development and I
>thought that it mightbe the IDE that I use and have been
>working the problem from that approach, but today it
>locked up with just the Windows Explorer and MSOE open. I
>was trying to start a third app and had double clicked
>the shortcut on the desktop when it locked up. This only
>started a couple of weeks ago. At first, I thought it
>might have been a power source issue. I was at a
>different location and thought that there might be a
>power issue. Then it happened at home where I had never
>had the problem before. I had recently added a USB
>device, so I uninstalled it, thinking that it might have
>caused problems. But, it started happening more often,
>and I noticed that it was always while working in the IDE
>that I use, so I started looking into that. It is a 16bit
>application, so I set compatibility to Win95, and I also
>checked the box for it to run in its own memory space.
>Nothing seemed to work. Then, it happened when that app
>was not running, so here I am. This computer has always
>been updated with the auto update feature. I always
>install the latest updates. It also has Norton Antivirus
>running on it, and I always accept the live updates for
>that as well. This computer has been running for close to
>a year without any problems and it has always been used
>the same way.
>
>Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Steven Hill
>Martin GA, USA
>
>.
>