Frozen Windows XP on AMD / Via Chipset 400

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Miguel Angelo

Hi All,

I have a strange problem on my Windows XP Professional
( With service pack 1, not SP1a ).

I have recently reinstall Windows XP SP1, place the VIA
AGP upgrade (v4.43), the most recente ATI 9500 Pro
drivers for XP, sometimes windows XP just frises, no
reboot, no event message, it just hangs, even the
keyboard light don't work (number lock, etc) nothing !!

This is now appening everytime i try to unistall the Sun
Java virtual machine, but it happens kind of random

This exact machine was rock solid on Windows 2000 SP3
with similiar drivers, and with the sun java virtual (a
older version)

My Hardware is AMD 2600, ram 768Mb DDR400, a ATI 9500 Pro
graphic card, sound blaster audigy 1, and the motherboard
is a Via400 Matsonic card (yes i know it kind of sucks)

I suspect or AGP/VIA problems or is there any problem
with AMD processors and Windows XP ???


Any help would be great
Miguel Angelo
 
I have an AMD Athlon 1700 and a Chaintech motherboard with
a VIA chipset (using v4.43 drivers) and my machine is
running perfectly, so that might not be your problem. It
could just as easily be Video Card drivers or faulty RAM.

Mack
 
Thankx Mack and Rich

I'm not really inclined to faulty ram/faulty hardware
since i have used Windows 2000 for the past 6 months and
it was stable has a rock.
(read has stable has... windows can be... it tended to
crash only one a month, and generaly related to a game)

I do hope that it's not a video driver problems, since
this ones i can select the AGP speed 4x, you see if i put
AGP 8x it crashes the machine, and the previous ATI
drivers keep forcing me to use 8x speed


Miguel Angelo
 
Hi Miguel,

PGP was a security program that encrypted files for me - it worked great
under ME but the version I had was problematic with XP.
I have also installed CPUCool, which sems to have made a difference - only
one crash today (so far!), but I have replaced my Nvidia drivers and updated
my soundcard drivers which were badly out of date.
Have you tried Control Panel>Administrative tools>Event Viewer and selected
'System'? It will then show you the history of your system and what was
being run/requested when a crash/lock up occured - very useful tool.

HTH

Rick
 
First thankx for the reply's Rich and Mark,

I think i have now solved the problem, it was actualy
related to the most recent ATI drivers, catalyst 3.5, i
have installed a older version, catalyst 3.4 and it
worked like a charm, the machine is now stable, i have
pushed her last night and no crash what so ever.

Only time will confirm it, but it it apears stable.

Stay Happy
Miguel Angelo
 
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