XP Freezes for NO REASON!

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I have a computer that I recently built about 6 months ago and I have done
everything in terms of maintenance and upkeep (defrag, disk cleanup, disk
doctor, etc..) but it seems like about once a day my computer will free for
no good reason. I have 1 gig of memory, a dual processor and 200+ gigs of
hard drive space so I figure that nothing should be able to crash the system.
Is there maybe a setting or something that I have wrong that would cause this
to happen? It usually happens when I run programs that will hog a lot of
memory but with as much power as I have I figure that it should not be an
issue. Any comments/suggestions are welcome, PLEASE help me!

 

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"Michael O." <MichaelO@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a computer that I recently built about 6 months ago and I have done
> everything in terms of maintenance and upkeep (defrag, disk cleanup, disk
> doctor, etc..) but it seems like about once a day my computer will free
> for
> no good reason. I have 1 gig of memory, a dual processor and 200+ gigs of
> hard drive space so I figure that nothing should be able to crash the
> system.
> Is there maybe a setting or something that I have wrong that would cause
> this
> to happen? It usually happens when I run programs that will hog a lot of
> memory but with as much power as I have I figure that it should not be an
> issue. Any comments/suggestions are welcome, PLEASE help me!

Look in the event viewer to see if anything is listed at the time of the
freeze. If not, there's a good chance it's hardware related. Could be
overheating, could be the hard drive, could be almost anything else.

 

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You mentioned a 200+ Gb HD. Is your system 48-bit enabled? You need
WinXPSP1 or greater (Winupdate will put SP2 on, so you are OK if you run
Winupdate). You also need to run BigDriveEnable from your HD manufacturers
website. It essentially puts in a registry entry something like
"EnableBigLBA=1". This tells windows to turn on large HD support with
48-bit addressing. If you don't do this, then anytime that the system
inadvertently tries to write something to the disk above the 137 Gb
boundary, you'll get a crash (usually a blue screen). I've had personal
experience with this one and it was easy to fix, as above. If you have a
new model motherboard, it should support the 48-bit addressing, so you
should be OK as far as the boot process is concerned. If you had an older
motherboard, you wouldn't be able to boot unless you had the drive partioned
so that the first partition was < 137 Gb.

Just a thought ....

Regards,
Mark



"D.Currie" <dmbcurrie.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Michael O." <MichaelO@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2627D2EC-9BEA-47AC-A818-B13336F6A481@microsoft.com...
>>I have a computer that I recently built about 6 months ago and I have done
>> everything in terms of maintenance and upkeep (defrag, disk cleanup, disk
>> doctor, etc..) but it seems like about once a day my computer will free
>> for
>> no good reason. I have 1 gig of memory, a dual processor and 200+ gigs of
>> hard drive space so I figure that nothing should be able to crash the
>> system.
>> Is there maybe a setting or something that I have wrong that would cause
>> this
>> to happen? It usually happens when I run programs that will hog a lot of
>> memory but with as much power as I have I figure that it should not be an
>> issue. Any comments/suggestions are welcome, PLEASE help me!
>
> Look in the event viewer to see if anything is listed at the time of the
> freeze. If not, there's a good chance it's hardware related. Could be
> overheating, could be the hard drive, could be almost anything else.
>