re: Question about 'Top reasons for random, fatal crashes in Windows XP and Windows 2000'
Tuesday, April 5, 2005 at 6:29 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Michael C.
(1 messages posted)
Hi. I want to thank evereyone who provided me with a path to follow to get my HP
Pavilion 8765C to finally work. I had crashes constantly with the orginal Windows
ME and even more with XP Pro. My unit came standard with 128meg. From new also I
added 256meg ram. From the suggestions here, I started moving and swapping the ram
sticks. Bottom line is that my unit would not work at all with only the factory 128meg
bank in, in any slot. I put only the aftermarket 256meg in a slot and fired up. Unit
has been totally stable since. Best I can figure, the 256 was carrying the workload
and the bad 128meg was there to muck up the works. I'll get an additional 256 stick
to have 512meg and report back if any problems. I was told by armchair experts that
bios was no good, mobo no good, power supply no good, etc... Check your memory before
replacing any other stuff first! PS: Both cooling fans were dead. I cleaned out the
case like new and installed 2 new color led fans. Unit stays cool and casts an even
cooler color on the wall behind it now.
On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 at 5:05 pm, Patrick wrote:
>
>well, A couple things. First of all, from your description, it sounds a lot like
>my pc, a pavilion 8765C. I have had similar problems, although not to the extent
>it sounds like you are experiencing. Try hitting F1 at the logo screen, this is
the
>way mine is. Unfortunately, if you have the same system as me, the bios setup is
>not overly helpful. I have yet to find any shadowing options, and is really only
>useful for configuring drives. Also, no updates, and virtually impossible to get
>any info on mobo or bios version. It's some award bios, but seems to be a piece
of
>crap and I have yet to find any updates. Anyway, try F1, and hope you don't have
>the same bios as me. I know my system is very sketchy when it comes to USB also,
>I can't even keep my wireless intellimouse explorer plugged in at startup or the
>system won't even boot. This could also be causing your issue, as you mentioned
that
>USB hub.
>
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