Windows XP (SP2) Crashing

[Gregg Collins]

Hi all,

I've just a bought new hard drive & installed a brand new copy of Windows XP
SP2 onto it. Oh what a joy XP is! NOT!

It appears to be totally and utterly unstable, well if you plan on using
your PC anyway. Like I said it is a brand new drive and as a result there
is hardly anything installed on it. I've got Norton Internet Security 2002,
ntlworld broadband, Adobe Acrobat, Mailwasher and some ATI bits on there &
that's it. Not a lot I think you'll agree.

Now if I try to install a game onto it, it runs fine for about 5-10 minutes
and then freezes up. I have to reset the PC manually to get it going again.
Also when I go online to check Windows Update, that even causes it to crash.
This time though it freezes and the monitor goes into standby mode. Again I
have to manually restart the PC.

It seems that if I try to do anything on the PC it just ends up crashing,
which is getting on my tits to say the least! So if anyone has any ideas of
how I can try and fix this thing then I would be very gratefull to hear
them.

Thanks in advance,

Gregg.

My PC spec. is as follows;
Celeron 600Mhz
256Mb RAM
120Gb Hard Drive
Radeon 9200 SE 128Mb Graphics Card
Windows XP (SP2)

[Andrew E.]

Try going to run,type:cmd In cmd type:Sfc /Scannow Install the xp cd
when the graph starts,exit the info page.When its thru,type:CHKDSK C: /F
Agree to restart,then type:EXIT Restart computer,remove xp cd.

"Gregg Collins" wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've just a bought new hard drive & installed a brand new copy of Windows XP
> SP2 onto it. Oh what a joy XP is! NOT!
>
> It appears to be totally and utterly unstable, well if you plan on using
> your PC anyway. Like I said it is a brand new drive and as a result there
> is hardly anything installed on it. I've got Norton Internet Security 2002,
> ntlworld broadband, Adobe Acrobat, Mailwasher and some ATI bits on there &
> that's it. Not a lot I think you'll agree.
>
> Now if I try to install a game onto it, it runs fine for about 5-10 minutes
> and then freezes up. I have to reset the PC manually to get it going again.
> Also when I go online to check Windows Update, that even causes it to crash.
> This time though it freezes and the monitor goes into standby mode. Again I
> have to manually restart the PC.
>
> It seems that if I try to do anything on the PC it just ends up crashing,
> which is getting on my tits to say the least! So if anyone has any ideas of
> how I can try and fix this thing then I would be very gratefull to hear
> them.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Gregg.
>
> My PC spec. is as follows;
> Celeron 600Mhz
> 256Mb RAM
> 120Gb Hard Drive
> Radeon 9200 SE 128Mb Graphics Card
> Windows XP (SP2)
>
>
>

[Gregg Collins]

Thanks for the reply Andrew,

I've done what you've suggested so I'll just have to wait & see if it has
done the trick. I'll post if it it freezes again.

Thanks again,

Gregg.

"Andrew E." > wrote in message
...
> Try going to run,type:cmd In cmd type:Sfc /Scannow Install the xp cd
> when the graph starts,exit the info page.When its thru,type:CHKDSK C: /F
> Agree to restart,then type:EXIT Restart computer,remove xp cd.
>
> "Gregg Collins" wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I've just a bought new hard drive & installed a brand new copy of Windows
>> XP
>> SP2 onto it. Oh what a joy XP is! NOT!
>>
>> It appears to be totally and utterly unstable, well if you plan on using
>> your PC anyway. Like I said it is a brand new drive and as a result
>> there
>> is hardly anything installed on it. I've got Norton Internet Security
>> 2002,
>> ntlworld broadband, Adobe Acrobat, Mailwasher and some ATI bits on there
>> &
>> that's it. Not a lot I think you'll agree.
>>
>> Now if I try to install a game onto it, it runs fine for about 5-10
>> minutes
>> and then freezes up. I have to reset the PC manually to get it going
>> again.
>> Also when I go online to check Windows Update, that even causes it to
>> crash.
>> This time though it freezes and the monitor goes into standby mode.
>> Again I
>> have to manually restart the PC.
>>
>> It seems that if I try to do anything on the PC it just ends up crashing,
>> which is getting on my tits to say the least! So if anyone has any ideas
>> of
>> how I can try and fix this thing then I would be very gratefull to hear
>> them.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Gregg.
>>
>> My PC spec. is as follows;
>> Celeron 600Mhz
>> 256Mb RAM
>> 120Gb Hard Drive
>> Radeon 9200 SE 128Mb Graphics Card
>> Windows XP (SP2)
>>
>>
>>