>Ok this is a question and sort of a reply as well to what I have been reading here
>esp. Shehan and Trev. I cannot run XP (XPiece of Shit) on my machine for more than
>30min sometimes more if I am extremely lucky without a total lock up freeze. But
>thats not all... I have an AMD Athlon 1.0ghz with VIA kt133 and 256MB PNY PC133.
>I built the computer from a barebones kit Andara Tech 250watt PS, the Mobo, from
>the bios number since i dont have a good manual is made by GVC(I dare anyone to waste
>there time trying to find info on that one), ESS chipset modem 56k, Suncheer 12*10*32*
>CDRW, Logitec Scroll mouse(I thought for awhile it could be the mouse but still havenot
>tested). Anyway also Segate 30GB at 5200 and a IBM Deckstar 80GB at 7200. Also Pine
>GeForce2 MX200 64MB, on board audio coupled with a Korg 1212/io sound card for recording
>purposes. OK now the OSes. Windows 98Se, Win2000 Pro, WinXP and RedHat Linux 7.2.
>The multiboot system is set up properly all on own partition blah blah Ive set em
>up b4. Now with that said let me get to the point. It is not the memory, powersupply
>or cmos battery, the reason is Win98 functions flawlessly!!! never crashes ever(well
>ok once in a great while) ALL my drivers are up to date! The only OS that doesnt
>freeze is Win98 all others perform random freezing? You see the delema? How can one
>os on the same machine run smooth and others fail. By the way I put in a fresh formatted
>Segate drive and installed ONLY XP on it and it still froze this rules out the multiboot.
>If someone can explain to me that the other three OSes drain more power than I will
>go get a PS. If some one can explain to me that the OSes use Mem Modules differently
>then OK ect.... But please offer me some scientific explanation as to why these things
>occure I have been computing since 1983 starting with the beloved TRS80 and this
>is the WORST problem i have ever had. I dont even like XP and once the problem is
>solved i probably will remove it but i cant sleep you know!!! thanks all
>
>

Written in response to: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000' (Youtongfu: Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 9:31 am) There are presently no replies to this message.

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