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brotherdave
I have a WINDOWS XP PRO computer I built in the spring 2003. It had a
motherboard failure once about 30 days after switching it on, I ditched the
original AOPEN motherboard for a used OEM Gateway Intel D850 early version
with a 1.8 Pentium 4 which I liked a lot so I then upgraded to a brand new
D850EMV2 which at that time was a really good board with just over 1 GIG of
1033 Rambus and a Pentium 4 2.4 chip. This computer setup ran error free
from late 2003 until about three weeks ago when SP3 got installed through
Windows Update. No problems before SP3 ever. Great machine.
Since then, nothing and I mean but trouble. First my TrendMicro would not
do a virus scan all the way through. I thought hmmm. But that was only the
beginning.
Then I started getting BSOD errors. Never had them before. Tried a system
restore. Still got BSOD errors. The computer seemed slower than usual like
it was bogged down. Checking Task Manager I could not find anything running
using processor or memory to account for the sluggishness, but it was
behaving just like it was out of resources including freezing and sometimes
no cursor.
I next tried a REPAIR which it won't complete as it gives errors in repair
and won't finish. It gets about 92% of the way through the repair and then
gives an error.
I next tried deleting the file that was causing the TrendMicro scan issue
and now it won't boot. It apparently was the IDE driver and now the drive
won't start.
Now it won't boot at all, the splash screen loads and then it goes right to
BSOD. The error says it can't find the drive. This sucks.
I have a friend whose machine does pretty much the same thing except theirs
just boots over and over all by itself.
Some of this is my fault. But not all.
I give up!
Funny that a machine that ran flawlessly for over 4 years got trashed by
SP3. Unlike many of the reports mine is a Pentium 4, which was a pretty good
machine at the time I built it...and ran great until SP3. It was a very
usable and stable machine.
I have backups on most of my documents. But when I think of all the time
and money it is going to take to get this thing working again I want to
scream.
Worst part of all this is that even if I could get XP to reinstall (which I
can't because I already tried that) I don't have ANY MORE XP PRO installs
left on my license anyway. You only get three installs and since I've
changed boards twice already I don't have any more installs left.
So I'm torn between spending a couple of hundred for a new hard drive and a
new XP license or just giving up on MS completely and buying a Mac.
Now the machine won't boot at all yielding a BSOD all the time. It won't
run the Repair all the way through saying there is a DLL error.
It won't boot at all. It can't even find the drive apparently.
Thanks Microsoft. I'm really upset about this. Really, REALLY.
motherboard failure once about 30 days after switching it on, I ditched the
original AOPEN motherboard for a used OEM Gateway Intel D850 early version
with a 1.8 Pentium 4 which I liked a lot so I then upgraded to a brand new
D850EMV2 which at that time was a really good board with just over 1 GIG of
1033 Rambus and a Pentium 4 2.4 chip. This computer setup ran error free
from late 2003 until about three weeks ago when SP3 got installed through
Windows Update. No problems before SP3 ever. Great machine.
Since then, nothing and I mean but trouble. First my TrendMicro would not
do a virus scan all the way through. I thought hmmm. But that was only the
beginning.
Then I started getting BSOD errors. Never had them before. Tried a system
restore. Still got BSOD errors. The computer seemed slower than usual like
it was bogged down. Checking Task Manager I could not find anything running
using processor or memory to account for the sluggishness, but it was
behaving just like it was out of resources including freezing and sometimes
no cursor.
I next tried a REPAIR which it won't complete as it gives errors in repair
and won't finish. It gets about 92% of the way through the repair and then
gives an error.
I next tried deleting the file that was causing the TrendMicro scan issue
and now it won't boot. It apparently was the IDE driver and now the drive
won't start.
Now it won't boot at all, the splash screen loads and then it goes right to
BSOD. The error says it can't find the drive. This sucks.
I have a friend whose machine does pretty much the same thing except theirs
just boots over and over all by itself.
Some of this is my fault. But not all.
I give up!
Funny that a machine that ran flawlessly for over 4 years got trashed by
SP3. Unlike many of the reports mine is a Pentium 4, which was a pretty good
machine at the time I built it...and ran great until SP3. It was a very
usable and stable machine.
I have backups on most of my documents. But when I think of all the time
and money it is going to take to get this thing working again I want to
scream.
Worst part of all this is that even if I could get XP to reinstall (which I
can't because I already tried that) I don't have ANY MORE XP PRO installs
left on my license anyway. You only get three installs and since I've
changed boards twice already I don't have any more installs left.
So I'm torn between spending a couple of hundred for a new hard drive and a
new XP license or just giving up on MS completely and buying a Mac.
Now the machine won't boot at all yielding a BSOD all the time. It won't
run the Repair all the way through saying there is a DLL error.
It won't boot at all. It can't even find the drive apparently.
Thanks Microsoft. I'm really upset about this. Really, REALLY.