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by: dawillie March 27, 2005 2:13 PM PST

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XP hangs on re- start

by dawillie - 3/27/05 2:13 PM

My friend has a brand new XP-SP-2 installed with Athlon64 2800+ processor on a 160GB [split 4 ways]HD and with 1 GB RAM.

Running ADSL which is one of the Canadian equivalents of High Speed.

AV fully current and scanned clean as well as Ad-Aware and Spybot both current and scanned clean.

Windows firewall has been set to allow his trusted programs.

On the second day of use we noted that after the PC had been on for something in excess of 10 mins it would not re- start normally and we had to use the 're set' button to force it to re-boot.

I remember reading something about how XP 'writes to cache' on re- boot or shut down and remember experiencing the same problem myself some 2 years ago when I first got XP.

Remember also going somewhere in the O/S and 'enabling' the 'write to cache' function which resolved the problem, but cannot for the life of me remember where it was that I went.

Can someone please help.

Am i in the right direction?

thank you

david williams


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Is it the usual?

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 3/27/05 2:23 PM

In Reply to: XP hangs on re- start by dawillie

I've found too many Athlon 64's with 1G RAM and the ATI video card to do this. To get the owner out of their jam we put in the minimum amount of RAM (1 stick if the board supports it), update the BIOS, load the bios's safest defaults and toss out the ATI.

I offer no support for this combo since I've learned this one the hard way.

The other hard lesson are those that don't fit the biggest power supply they can find.

Bob


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thank you Robert

by dawillie - 3/27/05 5:07 PM

In Reply to: Is it the usual? by R. Proffitt Moderator

he got a NVidia 128 MB video card and def wants 1GB RAM.

so other than flushing or upgrading the BIOS and bigger power supply is there anything that can be done to tweak the system as is?


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That's good!

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 3/27/05 5:24 PM

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I usually don't see the issue with current BIOS, BIOS defaults, good RAM and whopper power supplies. We have a stock of 680W cheapies that fill the bill. NO, not for a millisecond do I believe it can deliver 680W, but it keeps them out of trouble.

Bob


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Got the email, but

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 4/22/05 3:35 AM

In Reply to: thank you Robert by dawillie

I don't see how TWEAKUI applies here.

The combo is known trouble and my advice is to ask the system builder to fix it.

Bob


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(NT) OK thanks Robert.

by dawillie - 4/22/05 7:23 AM

In Reply to: Got the email, but by R. Proffitt Moderator


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