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re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Friday, August 30, 2002 at 3:01 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by th14
(6 messages posted)
First of all, I agree with your evaluation of XP.
Responses had a lot of bad information concerning the power supply. Ohm's law won't
help much with a power calculation. Watts = Voltage x Amps X PowerFactor.
Using a Ammeter for current won't get the correct result unless it can reat total
amps, including those in harmonics. With PCs the harmonic current load is high.
Also Power is not accumulative, going into sleep mode doesn't save power, just decreases
your bill. In any case the power users are the hard drives, cd and dvd drives along
with the peripherals , optical mice, removable drives etc. The power consumtion of
the computer chips is miniscule compared to the others. I would worry only if the
problem occured when devices that only come on when needed interfered with the performance.
BUT, all said a power supply is cheep.
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002 at 9:31 am, Youtongfu wrote:
>I have a question about Top
>reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000:
>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
>
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