Posted by kony on January 5, 2010, 4:42 pmPlease Register and login to reply and use other advanced options
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010 09:11:57 -0500, "Rudy"
>During the talk of not booting I've lost sight of the question what makes it
>freeze in the first place. It froze even after turning the screen saver off.
>I know that when sitting idle some programs and services do their own thing
>like checking for updates etc. I'm wondering if during one of these events
>the HDD acted up or a bad spot was encountered if that could cause the
>problem.
>Rudy
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Run the HDD manufacturer's diagnostics on it. Freeze-ups
are more often a hardware problem rather than programs or
services, I would primarily suspect failing capacitors.
Posted by Rudy on January 5, 2010, 5:50 pm
> I have an Athlon XP3200/400 running Win 2000 Pro. Several years old. After
> about an hour of inactivity the screen saver froze and I had to either
> shut down or re-boot. This has happened about three times so far in the
> last month and it always booted back up. After shuting down the last time,
> it wouldn't boot. The bios shows the CPU, the memory and then says
> searching for IDE's and stops. I tried at least a dozen times. Well I got
> ticked off. I banged the side of the box, turned it on and lo and behold
> it booted into windows. The box hasn't been opened, or played with at all.
> I'm wondering if it might be the HDD getting ready to go since it can't
> find it? Right now it's booting up. Any ideas? Thanks.
> Rudy
>I blew it out, re-seated everything and I've been using it all day. Oh well
>time will tell.
Rudy
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>freeze in the first place. It froze even after turning the screen saver off.
>I know that when sitting idle some programs and services do their own thing
>like checking for updates etc. I'm wondering if during one of these events
>the HDD acted up or a bad spot was encountered if that could cause the
>problem.
>Rudy
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