It hangs every time I try to drag a large directory from one machine to this machine. Fairly quickly too. With my other machines long usage of my internet would cause hanging too (or I attributed it to that, since my internet is via a cable modem on the...

2000 onto a new machine and it hangs indefinitely when the 'Starting Windows' progress bar completes. No error messages or re-boots - it just hangs. Machine spec: AMD XP2400 processor, Gigabyte GA-7VRXP m/board, 2 x 256 Mb DDR PC2700 RAM, 330w PSU,...

to do a restart. > But for testing purposes on that system, starting up WinME and going directly to a restart without starting any other program at all, still hangs the machine. plain CD-ROM. But I'll try that anyway. Oh yeah.. a CDROM in general would...

to a machine running ME : (desktop) from a machine running XP Home (laptop)? : : Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.print_fax () I have already done that. My problem is that the printer hangs on the ME machine when I print from XP. Sorry...

Vfat error kinda long. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion () Win 98 SE 256mb PIII 1 gb. 80gb drive partitioned C:, D: and E: I'm getting a Vfat error when booting and shutting down. I have to use the reset button when the error appears....

2k nor can i reinstall Win98. Is there any switch or other way to tell the setup program of win2k to skip hardware detection of USB controllers (remember, even detection hangs the machine!) during installation? Any help is appreciated. Ralf. Archived...

the pe2300. I've tried two IDE cards, a SIIG SC-PE4A12 UATA-100 and a no-name ATA-66, both hang the machine at POST. (The SIIG is an odd card anyway, it also hangs an IBM, so I wasn't too surprised) Anybody know of an IDE card that is KNOWN to work...

passwd I gave it, but then the machine hung. Then I hard booted the machine, and everytime there after it booted correctly, but on the desktop of my Windows XP clicking on any Quick launch icons basically hangs my machine. On the task manager nothing...

the ristndrd.sif file, at the driver install portion of W2k setup the machine hangs. I have removed all the other drivers from the folder leaving only the video driver & still the machine hangs. The machine is a Dell 370 Precision. I have the latest...

a huge amount of work and I'm now dealing with a machine which is up to date and a version of the OS that is 4 years old. I would imagine that almost nothing on the machine has drivers. Did they even have a DVD ROM back in those days? I'm sure that Win2k...