Windows XP home and Intel D830 dual core problems

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I have recently purchased a PC with a Intel D830 dual core processor with OEM
XP Home edition installed.
It seems that this combination does cause a lot of issues, when running even
basic applications as Internet explorer, but more serious with (registered)
versions of NERO, and a lot of other applications.
Does anyone have usefull suggestions to cure this problem ?
 
If you are seeing strange instability issues, lockups, system hangs and
random corruption and barring some type of infant failure, or known-bug; its
not the cpu or the motherboard, it's the memory you are using. If you didn't
upgrade the memory with your new system, to memory approved & tested by intel
for that motherboard you are inviting these type of problems. Intel has
approved memory modules from various manufactures. If you don't use them
Intel won't even talk to regarding support. Back in the days of pc100 & pc133
you could use just about any memory on any board. Since memory is now up
around 1033MHz and ever since the speed went past 266mhz it's been critical
for end users to populate there systems with only approved memory.

Check the memory part numbers and make sure it's approved and tested by
intel for operation with your motherboard. I persoanlly have a couple of dual
processor as well as dual core systems, even laptops and have nothing but
GREAT performance from those systems. They all have the correct approved and
tested memory in them. I went cheap on my Powermac G5, and had nothing but
problems, it wasn't until I shelled out the money for some approved Kingston
Memory that the system started kicking arse.

You can search on the internet for a program called memtest. It's free and
self booting. Let it run the full suite of tests overnight and if you gfet
any errors that you know where to start.

You didn't give very much info so I'm just guessing here.

Brian
 
Just for the record the only difference between windows retail and windows
oem; is who supports the os. Technically they are identical revision to
revision. Windows retail is supported my microsoft, windows oem is support by
the system maker hence the name oem original equipment manufacturer. So
thinking that its the combination of the 2 is just plain silly. Microsoft may
give you a curtosy free support phone call if you complain & cry enough.

Brian
 
Brian,

Thanks, I'll try the memory test.
More info : I'm not a specialist, but every time that I start Nero, of other
applications to write on DVD, the moment that I select the media the
application freezes, followed by the windows message "windows has detected an
error in application X and shut down the application do you want to send the
error message ... I'm sure you know the kind of message. I've had the same
thing several times with internet. explorer. But when watching movies or
playing games etc there is no problem, even when I use the same DVD-RW drive.

Koen
 
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