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System Freezes in XPh SP2
I'm having massive issues with unannounced system freezes. When looking in
Event Viewer I get around 8 "Application Pop Up: : Machine Check: Regs" events just before the freeze takes place. I had MS Anti Pop Up Software installed but removed it in case this was the issue - it wasn't. Also tried removing my other Anti Pop Up software but this still hasn't helped. Driving me round the twist. Any help appreciated. The fact I've now bought an External HDD which I can't get to work to back up my data and do a clean install of XP is also frustrating me no end. |
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Hi JohnO,
Did you install any new applications or add any other hardware besides the external hard drive? If not, you may want to consider this freeze motherboard-battery-related. It may sound very strange but I had many of the symptoms your system is showing and a new motherboard battery took care of everything -- It's at least a shot. Also, I was not having any system time issues that would normally clue me to such a thing. I've found that some systems can run forever (although the timing will be off) with a bad mb battery and other systems completely freeze when the battery starts to barely falter. As far as your hard drive is concerned, what make and model is it? We probaby can figure out the problem with that one relatively easy since XP can support anything that's made these days. There might be some kind of weird trick to it. :-) Regards, Harlin Seritt |
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Thanks for the Battery advice - will try it out.
Hard drive is a Maxtor, with an external case. Problem is that the device doesn't show itself as a mapped drive, but is in System Hardware Profile as a second hard drive. This means it cannot be formatted or indeed written to as planned. I'm buying Ghost to try and do this, but I feel as if I'm spending even more money with absolutely no guarantee of it working. "Harlin Seritt" wrote: Hi JohnO, Did you install any new applications or add any other hardware besides the external hard drive? If not, you may want to consider this freeze motherboard-battery-related. It may sound very strange but I had many of the symptoms your system is showing and a new motherboard battery took care of everything -- It's at least a shot. Also, I was not having any system time issues that would normally clue me to such a thing. I've found that some systems can run forever (although the timing will be off) with a bad mb battery and other systems completely freeze when the battery starts to barely falter. As far as your hard drive is concerned, what make and model is it? We probaby can figure out the problem with that one relatively easy since XP can support anything that's made these days. There might be some kind of weird trick to it. :-) Regards, Harlin Seritt |
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Have you gat a partition on the external drive? Is it formatted? The drive
will not be given a drive letter by the O/S until it has been done. -- Regards, Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) If you knew half as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "JohnO" wrote in message ... Thanks for the Battery advice - will try it out. Hard drive is a Maxtor, with an external case. Problem is that the device doesn't show itself as a mapped drive, but is in System Hardware Profile as a second hard drive. This means it cannot be formatted or indeed written to as planned. I'm buying Ghost to try and do this, but I feel as if I'm spending even more money with absolutely no guarantee of it working. "Harlin Seritt" wrote: Hi JohnO, Did you install any new applications or add any other hardware besides the external hard drive? If not, you may want to consider this freeze motherboard-battery-related. It may sound very strange but I had many of the symptoms your system is showing and a new motherboard battery took care of everything -- It's at least a shot. Also, I was not having any system time issues that would normally clue me to such a thing. I've found that some systems can run forever (although the timing will be off) with a bad mb battery and other systems completely freeze when the battery starts to barely falter. As far as your hard drive is concerned, what make and model is it? We probaby can figure out the problem with that one relatively easy since XP can support anything that's made these days. There might be some kind of weird trick to it. :-) Regards, Harlin Seritt |
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Thanks Richard.
How can I format it if I can't access it? Should I firstly set it up as a second IDE hard drive and format it? Thanks JohnO "Richard Urban" wrote: Have you gat a partition on the external drive? Is it formatted? The drive will not be given a drive letter by the O/S until it has been done. -- Regards, Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) If you knew half as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "JohnO" wrote in message ... Thanks for the Battery advice - will try it out. Hard drive is a Maxtor, with an external case. Problem is that the device doesn't show itself as a mapped drive, but is in System Hardware Profile as a second hard drive. This means it cannot be formatted or indeed written to as planned. I'm buying Ghost to try and do this, but I feel as if I'm spending even more money with absolutely no guarantee of it working. "Harlin Seritt" wrote: Hi JohnO, Did you install any new applications or add any other hardware besides the external hard drive? If not, you may want to consider this freeze motherboard-battery-related. It may sound very strange but I had many of the symptoms your system is showing and a new motherboard battery took care of everything -- It's at least a shot. Also, I was not having any system time issues that would normally clue me to such a thing. I've found that some systems can run forever (although the timing will be off) with a bad mb battery and other systems completely freeze when the battery starts to barely falter. As far as your hard drive is concerned, what make and model is it? We probaby can figure out the problem with that one relatively easy since XP can support anything that's made these days. There might be some kind of weird trick to it. :-) Regards, Harlin Seritt |
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You can't access it because it is not formatted. Right click on My Computer
| Manage | Disk Management. Find the drive. Click on the drive in the bottom window. Do you see any partitions or is it displayed as RAW or unallocated? If it is Raw or unallocated you have to create a partition and format the partition. Then the computer will give it a drive letter designation upon a reboot. -- Regards, Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) If you knew half as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "JohnO" wrote in message news Thanks Richard. How can I format it if I can't access it? Should I firstly set it up as a second IDE hard drive and format it? Thanks JohnO "Richard Urban" wrote: Have you gat a partition on the external drive? Is it formatted? The drive will not be given a drive letter by the O/S until it has been done. -- Regards, Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) If you knew half as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "JohnO" wrote in message ... Thanks for the Battery advice - will try it out. Hard drive is a Maxtor, with an external case. Problem is that the device doesn't show itself as a mapped drive, but is in System Hardware Profile as a second hard drive. This means it cannot be formatted or indeed written to as planned. I'm buying Ghost to try and do this, but I feel as if I'm spending even more money with absolutely no guarantee of it working. "Harlin Seritt" wrote: Hi JohnO, Did you install any new applications or add any other hardware besides the external hard drive? If not, you may want to consider this freeze motherboard-battery-related. It may sound very strange but I had many of the symptoms your system is showing and a new motherboard battery took care of everything -- It's at least a shot. Also, I was not having any system time issues that would normally clue me to such a thing. I've found that some systems can run forever (although the timing will be off) with a bad mb battery and other systems completely freeze when the battery starts to barely falter. As far as your hard drive is concerned, what make and model is it? We probaby can figure out the problem with that one relatively easy since XP can support anything that's made these days. There might be some kind of weird trick to it. :-) Regards, Harlin Seritt |
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Hi John,
People says it should be visible in manage, Disk Management. I've experienced it wasn't. But doing as you suggested, taking out the drive and puting on a IDE cable and then format it, reinstall it in the external box, then it worked. Regards Leif On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 04:11:02 -0700, "JohnO" wrote: Thanks Richard. How can I format it if I can't access it? Should I firstly set it up as a second IDE hard drive and format it? Thanks JohnO "Richard Urban" wrote: Have you gat a partition on the external drive? Is it formatted? The drive will not be given a drive letter by the O/S until it has been done. -- Regards, Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) If you knew half as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "JohnO" wrote in message ... Thanks for the Battery advice - will try it out. Hard drive is a Maxtor, with an external case. Problem is that the device doesn't show itself as a mapped drive, but is in System Hardware Profile as a second hard drive. This means it cannot be formatted or indeed written to as planned. I'm buying Ghost to try and do this, but I feel as if I'm spending even more money with absolutely no guarantee of it working. "Harlin Seritt" wrote: Hi JohnO, Did you install any new applications or add any other hardware besides the external hard drive? If not, you may want to consider this freeze motherboard-battery-related. It may sound very strange but I had many of the symptoms your system is showing and a new motherboard battery took care of everything -- It's at least a shot. Also, I was not having any system time issues that would normally clue me to such a thing. I've found that some systems can run forever (although the timing will be off) with a bad mb battery and other systems completely freeze when the battery starts to barely falter. As far as your hard drive is concerned, what make and model is it? We probaby can figure out the problem with that one relatively easy since XP can support anything that's made these days. There might be some kind of weird trick to it. :-) Regards, Harlin Seritt |
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Leif
Many thanks - did this and it worked no problem at all. Now have a great back up solution, even if, after a clean format and reinstall of XPh, the Crash problem has reoccurred. However, looks far more stable. Many thanks for all the help. JohnO "Leif Nordmand Andersen" wrote: Hi John, People says it should be visible in manage, Disk Management. I've experienced it wasn't. But doing as you suggested, taking out the drive and puting on a IDE cable and then format it, reinstall it in the external box, then it worked. Regards Leif On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 04:11:02 -0700, "JohnO" wrote: Thanks Richard. How can I format it if I can't access it? Should I firstly set it up as a second IDE hard drive and format it? Thanks JohnO "Richard Urban" wrote: Have you gat a partition on the external drive? Is it formatted? The drive will not be given a drive letter by the O/S until it has been done. -- Regards, Richard Urban aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-) If you knew half as much as you think you know, You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew! "JohnO" wrote in message ... Thanks for the Battery advice - will try it out. Hard drive is a Maxtor, with an external case. Problem is that the device doesn't show itself as a mapped drive, but is in System Hardware Profile as a second hard drive. This means it cannot be formatted or indeed written to as planned. I'm buying Ghost to try and do this, but I feel as if I'm spending even more money with absolutely no guarantee of it working. "Harlin Seritt" wrote: Hi JohnO, Did you install any new applications or add any other hardware besides the external hard drive? If not, you may want to consider this freeze motherboard-battery-related. It may sound very strange but I had many of the symptoms your system is showing and a new motherboard battery took care of everything -- It's at least a shot. Also, I was not having any system time issues that would normally clue me to such a thing. I've found that some systems can run forever (although the timing will be off) with a bad mb battery and other systems completely freeze when the battery starts to barely falter. As far as your hard drive is concerned, what make and model is it? We probaby can figure out the problem with that one relatively easy since XP can support anything that's made these days. There might be some kind of weird trick to it. :-) Regards, Harlin Seritt |
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