Maybe its my motherboard?

[Army George]

It's me again....and after replacing my HD I still have problems with
XP Home. How do I trouble shoot my motherboard? A new HD with a
clean install of XP Home and the system still locks up >:-(

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Bring the motherboard to a shop for testing. For a quick sight-check, take a
good small pen flashlight and check the capacitors on the motherboard. If
any seem to have leaks, the board is a candidate for replacement.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Army George" > wrote in message
...
> It's me again....and after replacing my HD I still have problems with
> XP Home. How do I trouble shoot my motherboard? A new HD with a
> clean install of XP Home and the system still locks up >:-(

[GHalleck]

Army George wrote:

> It's me again....and after replacing my HD I still have problems with
> XP Home. How do I trouble shoot my motherboard? A new HD with a
> clean install of XP Home and the system still locks up >:-(

How about some information about the motherboard? Such as
Make/Model/Revision No., details on the CPU, memory and other
installed components? Or is this a brand name computer system
delivered directly to you? Any changes?

[tim]

get into the "CMOS setup", and change all the settings to thier "fail-safe defaults"

Also, it could be a problem with the video card; not the MoBo.

Are you getting an error message on a blue screen, or just a black screen?

[Army George]

<gulp>...it's a Compaq US 6024. The system is always kept up to date
with everything. BIOS identified the first HD bad during the IDE
test...so I installed a second HD which let me install XP okay along
with a bunch of the routine software. Now it's freezing at the black
screen.

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:19:31 -0700, GHalleck
> wrote:

>
>How about some information about the motherboard? Such as
>Make/Model/Revision No., details on the CPU, memory and other
>installed components? Or is this a brand name computer system
>delivered directly to you? Any changes?

[Army George]

How do I get into CMOS?

no error messages, it just locks up ... black screen.....

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:21:01 -0700, tim
> wrote:

>get into the "CMOS setup", and change all the settings to thier "fail-safe defaults"
>
>Also, it could be a problem with the video card; not the MoBo.
>
>Are you getting an error message on a blue screen, or just a black screen?

[Papa]

Sounds like a video card problem. Try reinserting it. If that doesn't work,
try a different video card. Good luck.

"Army George" > wrote in message
...
> How do I get into CMOS?
>
> no error messages, it just locks up ... black screen.....
>
> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:21:01 -0700, tim
> > wrote:
>
> >get into the "CMOS setup", and change all the settings to thier
"fail-safe defaults"
> >
> >Also, it could be a problem with the video card; not the MoBo.
> >
> >Are you getting an error message on a blue screen, or just a black
screen?
>

[Papa]

Sorry, but you are wrong. It could easily be a hardware problem (a loose or
defective video card, for example).

"The Unknown P" > wrote in message
...
> I missed your original posts so I'm not entirely sure what your problem
is. I do thing that you are going way overboard to solve a simple locking up
issue. XP usually locks up due to an outdated driver that does not allow a
higher function that XP is calling for and so it locks. XP can also lock
with some Athlong chipsets as buffers are not set correctly for the AGP.
Mouse buffers can be incorectly set on some computers and mouse detection of
third button or wheel may not be present as neede. The list is very long for
lockup reasons. The very very last thing you should be looking at is
hardware. First make sure you have every single updated driver for XP from
each manufacturer of your hardware. This includes any video cards, sound
cards, modems, ehternet cards, monitor, mouse, keyboard and yes even the
mother board. An excellent free program that will help you determine what
hardware you have and even provides some links to get the drivers is Everest
Home Edition. This replaces Aida32 which is no longer being developed. This
is the link. http://www.lavalys.com/index.php?page=product&view=1&subpage=5
> If you need more help feel free to e:mail me. I can give you the
modifications to the registry if you need them for the mouse and the Athlon
AGP issue. The best way to prevent lockups is to keep the OS up to date and
to keep it clean. Welcome to the eXPeriance. {:~)

[Army George]

It's gotta be something, because I just installed another HD (160GB)
and I still get the same problem. The BUOS recognized the 160 GB HD
so I should be safe...but just in case, how do I partition it now?
--AG

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:06:18 -0400, "Papa" > wrote:

>Sounds like a video card problem. Try reinserting it. If that doesn't work,
>try a different video card. Good luck.
>
>"Army George" > wrote in message
...
>> How do I get into CMOS?
>>
>> no error messages, it just locks up ... black screen.....
>>
>> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:21:01 -0700, tim
>> > wrote:
>>
>> >get into the "CMOS setup", and change all the settings to thier
>"fail-safe defaults"
>> >
>> >Also, it could be a problem with the video card; not the MoBo.
>> >
>> >Are you getting an error message on a blue screen, or just a black
>screen?
>>
>

[Papa]

Are you saying that you can see the early bootup information displayed on
the screen, and then you can hit DEL and get into the BIOS and see the
information there? If that is the case, then the video card is OK.

I think you need to provide a detailed description of exactly what is going
on.

"Army George" <res0km2r@R E MO V Everizon.net> wrote in message
...
> It's gotta be something, because I just installed another HD (160GB)
> and I still get the same problem. The BUOS recognized the 160 GB HD
> so I should be safe...but just in case, how do I partition it now?
> --AG
>
> On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 22:06:18 -0400, "Papa" > wrote:
>
> >Sounds like a video card problem. Try reinserting it. If that doesn't
work,
> >try a different video card. Good luck.
> >
> >"Army George" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> How do I get into CMOS?
> >>
> >> no error messages, it just locks up ... black screen.....
> >>
> >> On Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:21:01 -0700, tim
> >> > wrote:
> >>
> >> >get into the "CMOS setup", and change all the settings to thier
> >"fail-safe defaults"
> >> >
> >> >Also, it could be a problem with the video card; not the MoBo.
> >> >
> >> >Are you getting an error message on a blue screen, or just a black
> >screen?
> >>
> >
>