Summary: I like hwood's idea. FWIW, I have an HP injet, USB, on a w2k box. If the printer is ON at boot, w2k goes BSOD. If I turn on the printer after boot, ...
Summary: When i booted my system today I saw that Vdd was at 1.3v and bolded red. After memory tests were complete the system just froze without any beep code...
Summary: Hi all. Ive had a problem with a second system. Everytime I shut it down, It wouldn't boot.(It would just show black screen after post). I tried switc...
Summary: My computer started locking up under load a few months ago. Software corruption was my first suspicion so I loaded an old Ghost image of the C: driv...
Summary: Some some reason, my external HD is causing my computer to beep, whenever it is turned on during pre-windows booting. If I leave it plugged in, the bo...
Summary: Im trying to figure out whats going on w/ my friends computer. What happens is it seems to randomly lock up for anywhere from 1-5 seconds at a time du...
Summary: You might have a bad power supply also. That sometimes causes booting to stop at the floppy drive and it begins to affect other things as it get...
Summary: No offence but DITCH the Norton any virus...It is memory hungry and uses far to much comp resources to run. My personal opinion only I must add. Also ...
Summary: I originally thought that my computer was crashing because of the heat that games caused, but appearently it only crashes on games with high graphics ...
Summary: Have you cleaned out the case lately? A little dust can cause a lot of trouble. Looks like it is getting too hot and that would cause the lockups. Mig...
Summary: I just got an ECS p4m800pro-M v2.0 motherboard. It came with the older bios 061004, which works fine except for the fact the the reported cpu tempera...
Summary: hmm, i have experience with this... get a new CPU.... probably not compatible or just bad... That's what I'd do... if you don't want to do that, ensur...
Summary: Imo there are three types of mobo makers. The first prioritize price like ECS, Biostar and PC Chips and therefore have low low prices but at the exp...
Summary: Hello, Well I just got a whole new machine up and running Windows XP Soltek motherboard amd athlon xp 2000 512 ORC ddr 2100 memory msi geforce 4 128mb...
Summary: By default, any problem with winXP that would cause the system to lock generates a re-boot. This feature can be disabled so you may determine what is...
Summary: Sometimes,these o/s's give trouble when two devices clash.What I would do is:- a) make sure I have a current W98 start up disk handy (just in case) b)...
Summary: The only thing that I can think of is some 'weird' Bios problem that causes booting from the cdrom drive to fail. But I really can't buy it. ...
Summary: "As a point of interest I had posted another query on Dec. 6th (http://www.computing.net/hardware/wwwboard/forum/50566.html) and this problem has disa...
Summary: It could be a couple of different things or a combination of things but the error message you get if/when the system recovers itself indicates you pro...
Summary: I added a USB adapter and a NIC card when I put all the components back together again. I thought one of the hardware might be causing a lockup? so I...
Summary: HI:You provided a little information anyhow Read please the following : 1) Check for recently installed software or hardware. If the lockups started t...
Summary: ok i want to settle this problem once and for all. after googling and wiki'ing im still not sure what causes these symptoms. system lockup, sound loop...
Summary: just plug in the printer and boot up....XP should install the drivers needed Hopefully my advice will help you...Please post back with your results......
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