PC freezes/closes down

Vunderground

I recently installed Windows XP Professional on top of the Home version. This was my first mistake I now know. As a result I got lots of hardware conflicts and other glitches. I have since done a clean reinstall using the xp home disc but my machine still freezes and turns off without warning. I have tried installing and reinstallng the drivers, but no luck.

Any ideas?

kippy

Did you try formating the disk before installing XP?
Why not install XP Pro from fresh, with the option to delete the disk partitions and format the drive first?

Vunderground

Thanks. I've done that but its still freezing and closing down

joe_chicken

If you've completely formatted your hard drive and reinstalled XP then it sounds like it's a fault with your version of XP pro...

Have you tried formatting again and installing XP Home again?

p.s. try doing a normal format as apposed to a quick one...

Vunderground

I did a normal format using the XP home disc. This involved removing a partition, creating it again and a slow format of the drive. Still got the problems. I think this may be a driver thing that I'm not grasping or could it be a power supply issue?

techie

Sounds hardware to me rather than software issues? Is your pc overheating??? Check all the fans?

Vunderground

Thanks. I'll do that, but it's odd that there were no problems prior to my installing xp pro on over the home edition.

Vunderground

I seem to have solved this problem by disabling NVIDA Nforce2 Memory Controller in System Devices - Device Manager. Could this cause any problems? There were four entries for the Memory Controller - all the same - which doesn't seem right either. But, it's been working for hours now and it would turn itself off or freeze with as little as ten minutes work done, so I'm happy.