Lockups?!?
This is a discussion about Lockups?!? in the Customization Tweaking category; I have a computer with XP on it that has been fine for several weeks, then seemingly with no cause it began to lockup when idle or in basic windows tasks. It is fine playing games for hours, but try and run notepad and it locks solid! I have cut all startup programs and scanned for viruses and all to no avail, and ...
I have a computer with XP on it that has been fine for several weeks, then seemingly with no cause it began to lockup when idle or in basic windows tasks. It is fine playing games for hours, but try and run notepad and it locks solid! I have cut all startup programs and scanned for viruses and all to no avail, and the next step is format and reinstall (likely 2k because XP seems to me to be seriously bug ridden). Does anyone have any clue how to solve this in the 11th hour before I blast out the whole hard drive?
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What kind of system are you using?
And what kind of drivers?
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What kind of system are you using?
And what kind of drivers?
OP
500MHz Celery on i810 board with Voodoo 3 2000 PCI, onboard sound, Linksys 10/100 PCI NIC, Lucent Win Modem.
might be your video card, the Voodoo drivers for WindowsXP are "OK". they work most of the time, however, i have had the occasional Lock-Up, BSOD, or System Reboot, using any and all XP Voodoo drivers.