Windows XP, XP For "Xtreme Pain"

[Koffee Bean]

Man, I don't know how many times I wish I had Windows Me on my computer again. I had it for 10 months, and in those 10 months I had only twice ever expierenced a blue screen of death, and maybe 5 times a system freeze. "Even so" I thought, "I'll Get Windows XP!" BOY!!! WAS THAT EVER A MISTAKE!

Ever since installing Windows XP Home Edition in Augoust I've had nothing but a headache. The system keeps freezing, locking up, giving me blue screens of death, and crashing! I'm afraid to press any buttons on it for fear it'll stop responding!

I Find myself having to reinstall it around every 2~3 weeks! All my software is compatible with XP, I exceed minimun system requirments, and I have updated versions of all my drivers! Can ANYONE PLEASE tell me why XP keeps freezing on me?

Sytem Specs:
XP Home Edition (PURCHASED)
NTFS File System
256MB's RAM
40GB Drive
800Mhz Intel Celeron Processor

PS: Does anyone know if XP Professional gives you more reliabilty and stabilty than XP Home?

[d.crowley]

The time I had Win ME on my disk was (computer-wise) the most painful time I've ever had so far... nothing but driver incompatibilities, system errors, mysterious crashes etc... most of friends experiencing the same problems.

Afterwards, Win 98 SE turned out to be (imho) the fastest and most stable Windows version - some programs frequently crash (BSPlayer!), but besides that, no serious trouble.

On my brother's machine I just installed Win XP for the first time - and it seems quite a step ahead, honestly... no errors, no crashes, system running perfectly. The playful & new-user-friendly GUI seems to scare some hardliners away, but with some modifications, XP is definitely the best MS OS so far...

Seriously Koffee Bean, I have no clue what's wrong with your system. You must either use a really weird combination of exotic / old / incompatible hardware or you're simply messing up the installations... I mean, geez - with a Celeron CPU, you should be glad anything's working at all.

[notbob]

i've heard from about 16 people so far w/ xp home, all of which were having more problems than even win ME which also sucked

i have pro, i run for weeks 24/7 without restarting with a dc hub, dc++,cd burner (occasionally), audiograbber(occasionally), ftp server (6 days a week) with very fey crashes (less and less as i work it all out)

actually xp is greek--chi-rho (symbol fof [first 2 letters of] christ in medeival literature)
bill gates' attempt at saying his operating system is god

[Wolfie]

Originally posted by notbob
actually xp is greek--chi-rho (symbol fof [first 2 letters of] christ in medeival literature)
bill gates' attempt at saying his operating system is god

The more I hear about that guy, the more I get creeped out. You sure he's not saying "I'm God."?

[Koffee Bean]

I have A HP Pavilion XT919 computer. I was running Me before and when I went to XP i went for an upgrade, I then relaized I was still under FAT32 so I went for the clean install and chose to format it under NTFS, so I wound up with a new system. Everytime I reformat (2~3 weeks) I always go with a clean install. It can happen anytime, The last timer it happened was when I was adding songs to a CD Playlist before burning. Before it happened while downloading a song, and another time when I was surfing the web with Mozilla,before that it's happened at start-up, infact a while ago I had serious start-up problems, i would start-up and nothing would happen for around 5~10min. i pushed buttons, clicked stuff, and it wouldn't respond, and then when it finally did it wouls say "Windows has recovered from a serious error, would you like to inform Microsoft about it?" and then i would normally hit yes. Thinking maybe my file system sectors and files were screwed up I would go to the disk options in My Computer and check "Fix File System Errors" I would then proceed to reboot, and it would start scanning, but immediatly after scanning it would come back with a stop error. After doing this for areound 3 times, I reformated and it stopped.

As for the programs I have installed I have:
Norton AntiVirus 2003 Pro
Sygate Personal Firewall
Easy CD Creator 5.3 Platinum
KaZaA Lite 2.0.0
Ad-Aware 5.83
Blubster 2.0b
Mozilla 1.1
Microsoft Works 6.0
Windows Messenger 4.7
MusicMatch Jukebox 7.2 Plus
Sleepy i5.0
and finally..
Window Washer 4.5 Pro

[The Hunter]

:wings To add a bit to this, my tec wanted me to install XP home.
My problem is, what did they screw up? A full install is $300, XP home is $150. Just a note so any ideas can be added to this thread. My 950 celleron is working just fine for me. Will it be stressed with XP? Your answers might help many. Also games are not a big thing with me so the cache is not a problem yet. It also doesnt appear to have heat problems when overclocked. Also I running 2 sticks of 256/133. Not that onsale shit ram. Note to krell the board is a aopen ax133. Later.

[Wolfie]

better?

[Rickio]

Originally posted by Koffee Bean
Man, I don't know how many times I wish I had Windows Me on my computer again. I had it for 10 months, and in those 10 months I had only twice ever expierenced a blue screen of death, and maybe 5 times a system freeze. "Even so" I thought, "I'll Get Windows XP!" BOY!!! WAS THAT EVER A MISTAKE!

Ever since installing Windows XP Home Edition in Augoust I've had nothing but a headache. The system keeps freezing, locking up, giving me blue screens of death, and crashing! I'm afraid to press any buttons on it for fear it'll stop responding!

I Find myself having to reinstall it around every 2~3 weeks! All my software is compatible with XP, I exceed minimun system requirments, and I have updated versions of all my drivers! Can ANYONE PLEASE tell me why XP keeps freezing on me?

Sytem Specs:
XP Home Edition (PURCHASED)
NTFS File System
256MB's RAM
40GB Drive
800Mhz Intel Celeron Processor

PS: Does anyone know if XP Professional gives you more reliabilty and stabilty than XP Home?

when you got your computer did they give you or at least give you a web address where you can get your system drivers?

it sounds like your probably missing some drivers and xp is using generic drivers that are not really working well for you.

[Rickio]

Originally posted by The Hunter
:wings To add a bit to this, my tec wanted me to install XP home.
My problem is, what did they screw up? A full install is $300, XP home is $150. Just a note so any ideas can be added to this thread. My 950 celleron is working just fine for me. Will it be stressed with XP? Your answers might help many. Also games are not a big thing with me so the cache is not a problem yet. It also doesnt appear to have heat problems when overclocked. Also I running 2 sticks of 256/133. Not that onsale shit ram. Note to krell the board is a aopen ax133. Later.

i'd say about 75% if not more system techs barely know what they are doing. it's best you install and begin learning as you have more interest in keeping your system alive.
it's no big deal to install and configure your setup. just take it one step at a time and give yourself a day if so you won't stress.
read your manual and be sure you have all your drivers before you begin.

hell 150 bucks! to damn much for nothing man!

if your running good now, just copy your system with norton ghost. in case you mess up or want to return to your current setup you'll be ready and at ease knowing yoursafe either way.

[The Hunter]

:wings Next thought, this is a socket 370 setup the board is a ax33 the last post was a typo. The next upgrade thought is? some cellerons had a 256 cache, will it fit, or should I wack in a pentium? Than again is the few cellerons made with the higher cache just a pentium with another name. Also will heat be more of a problem with the higher cache? Right now the sys is running at 75 degrees, the cpu at 69f. The clock is back at 950. PSthe heat sink is the biggest thing I could saw the corners off and make it fit.

[The Hunter]

:wings Sort of what i thought,but it is just nice to have it confirmed. The speed I will gain willnever be noticed. Unless I start with hi tec games. The best thing is just keep shareing. As of yet I have had no problems. It all works. Shit that is the main thing isnt it. As long as it is all good we share. Night my friend.

[phalkon30]

Krell, great post on reformating

I am running XP Pro, i had the same problems until i updated windows, there was a major bug (in the release i had), after i got the update, it was great, before it, it wouldnt start up reliably

the only other thing i can add, is a web site i got off of TechTV a while ago, it tells you which things should/shouldnt be running in the background (only MS things), it freed about 30meg of ram for me and sped up my comp a bunch

check it out http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

(btw, i think XP was supposed to mean eXPerience, for experience in OS's, supposedly they learned...)

[AM1234]

Please tell me what services I do not need running on Windows XP!

[gorphon]

Originally posted by AM1234
Please tell me what services I do not need running on Windows XP!

dude... you are better off reading and learning then asking people for help. as far as I know, no one with any real knowledge will tell you what you dont need as they are not there in front of your pc with you and cant coach you through anything that goes wrong. so. go to this site:

http://www.blkviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm

and this one:
tweak3d

theyve got all kinds of how tos and tweaks on the right hand side. just read, spend a few hours today and more this weekend learning, you will be surprised how easy it is. I promise.

[CCSDUDE]

Whoa.....someone agrees with my stance on WinME......


Crashes are nonexistent on my system..... ; )

Haven't a clue what your problem could be.......just shocked that someone other then Rickio (advanced users in general too) agree with me on this issue.

Anyway do you have a graphics card installed? If you do try removing it before you format and reinstall XP then install the drivers, shut down, install the card, restart. Also, do what Krell said.....shut down all the winmng crap along with system restore and all that crap.


Have you tried going back to WinMe? I'd say if your totally stuck just go back to ME and see if it gives you problems in it's out of the box configuration. Then tweak till your hearts content and do the same to XP.

Why not have a duel boot system? Half XP on fat 32 and half ME.


As for XP's name....I'm gonna go with notbob's explanation. Bill, being the dipshit that he is would do something that twisted.


Later