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I just built a new machine, running a P4 at 2.53 ghz with a gig of dual channel 400 Mhz DDR on an Abit motherboard with an 800 Mhz FSB, and a 420 Watt power supply. I brought my old hard drive (from a different system, also running WinXP) over to the new system to serve as my Primary Master, and had to reformat and reinstall Windows due to the incompatibility between IDE Controllers and mobo's.
My problem is this: I've reformatted and reinstalled XP (two or three times, [each time being given copy errors for files that windows couldn't copy, but eventually, after retrying, it did copy all but 1]) and it runs both mega slowly, and crashes anytime I try to go online using my dial-up ISP, which I manually configured.
When I go to log onto the internet, the window opens which says,"Opening Port..." and it gives me an error saying that the modem is either misconfigured or being used by another application (there is no other application, and the config is all the default that XP put on upon installation), if I hit the "redial" button in the error window, my system crashes and reboots.
What the heck do I do?
I'm thinking I have to reformat and reinstall AGAIN, but that takes me awhile to do, since I have lots of data to back up.
Please help me.
It's totally original. If I was using a bootleg, that would explain it; but it's totally legit, hence my confusion.
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go to network settings and remove ur network card from the list of components that are installed and reboot...
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That seems like a pretty straight-forward way to eliminate the modem error; what about the speed issue? How can I get the speed back up?
Another thing I noticed is that I place the "Quick Launch" icons in the start bar, but when the machine reboots POOF! they're gone. What's up with that?
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as for the speed..when u remove the network card it from the list it will automatically detect itself again. If that didnt work try installing new drivers for the card. The speed thing should fix itself if not go to properties of ur netwrk card and try to again it manually.
As for Quick Launch, only thing i suggest is make sure the "start when windows starts" option is checked off
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hey!
Even a bootleg copy of XP should work just fine with brand new hardware.
I would guess that your old dial up modem is not compatible.
Be sure to try a hardware modem (not a win modem if you can swap it out as a test)For overall speed; get the updates from the windows update site - xp seems to need the IE 6 updates.
Good luck
Greaner
Also sometimes having a nic and a modem can cause a tcp/ip conflict.
Just remove the tcp/ip and let windows re-establish it when you re-boot or remove the nic.
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I removed the modem settings in the Device Manager, and rebooted; I got the same errors after XP rediscovered the modem.
I'm confident that the modem is functional because I used it only 4 days ago with the same hard drive and WinXP, just a different mobo. If there were a TCP/IP setting, would it cause the entire system to crash and reboot?
The system has begun freezing up as well, whenever I go from control panel to the start menu; I think that XP might just be messed up, and that perhaps I should RE-reformat and then install XP again.
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Hi there
I've run into these same problems too on installs. I've found that it could be one of 3 things causing them: network card as already mentioned, faulty memory or bad cd rom. If possible try swapping out the memory first and if that doesn't work try the cd rom. Good luck!
HTH
MindsEye
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