Win xp Driver problems

Hi Everyone.

I posted a few maonths back about Blue Screen Problems and also possible overheats. The issues that I had and the random shutdowns etc continued no matter what I did. I reinstalled, took off all extra programmes yet the system would still shutdown for no reason whether I was running WM Player, DSK Defrag or even Anti virus software.

I gave up in the end. packed away the PC and totally ignored it. last night, using a Spare 20gb Hard drive i laoded Win xp pro onto it and used it in place of my normal 250gb drive with Win Xp home installed. lo and behold it worked fine. no problems with any games, DSK defrag, Antivirus, Nero software.

Now in the days building up to my packing up the PC I had every error number under the sun often 3 or 4 in a row always the same, Driver error, Graphics error, Driver error etc. Couldnt trace it couldnt solve it. The only thing I know now is that the following isnt the problem directly

Memory = 1 512mb stick
ATI Radeon 256 Graphics card
Motherboard
Heat sink
Fan
This all leaves me with the knowledge that the Codes and drivers written onthe hard drive are the start and end of the problem. Does anyone have any suggestions of where to go from here. I would love to leave the XP pro on there and transfer it to my 250gb drive but i cannot get the soundcard working and i do not want to risk any lose of data or anything. I await you sage council

 

Well let me ask you this,
did you schedule your hard drive to automatically fix system errors.

If that doesn't work and you have your Windows XP professional installation disk then you can upgrade from home to professional on to your 250gb hard drive. If you have access to all the files, then backup what you want to save. If you have a CD-RW backup to disk then when you put a new installation in you can insert your disk and copy from that to hard drive.


Sometimes the best thing to do is to start out with new installation I hope this works for you, : )

 

Hello Mandarin,

I would leave the 20 gig drive as the boot drive and install the 250 gig drive as a secondary data drive. The OS drive/partition should be only for the OS with the data on its own partition/drive. You would have access to all the data.

That's the way the senior members on the Board have their systems setup - if something wrong with the OS, the data is not at risk from re installs/repairs. You have no idea how often we get posts about not being able to access user data with a non working OS and of course, no backups done

At the top of this forum you'll see General Information for Windows XP, XP SP 1 and XP SP 2 The last item - Moving Windows XP default folders Rev1 - is a how to on moving the My Documemts system folder with it's sub-folders to a non OS partition.

Regards - Charles