OK. Here's the deal.
IE was shutting down on this system pretty often, but there were also a bunch of trojans on it. So I formatted the c drive, reinstalled xp pro, office pro, avira, ad-aware, spybot, and, spywareblaster. I left the D partition alone, where the user's docs are located.
Now, after the fresh install, IE is still shutting down out of the blue and sometimes it still freezes. I did notice when I installed the drivers for the motherboard that one did not install. It's called the ATM Network Controller. I guess that may indicate that there is a PCI NIC installed? I'm not at the system, so I can't check.
What could be causing this behavior? Could it be because I did not format the D partition when I formatted the C partition, and there are still some threats creating havoc? Most viruses and spyware usually attack the c drive. Do any attack a partition that does not have an OS?
Based on what I've told you so far, do you suggest that I reformat the D drive, format both drives and start over, or do you think I should look for and install the driver for the ATM Network Controller (by PCI NIC (if there is one) and downgrade to IE7 (some claim IE8 does not play well with XP, however, I believe IE7 was running before I formatted the C drive initially)?
The model of the mobo is PCChips M863G.
UPDATE:
Here's the latest:
First I got the error message that said Internet Explorer had encountered an error and had to shut down and then the screen froze and I couldn't do anything. Then another error screen appeared with a big red X with the following error message:
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Sysfader: iexplore.exe - Application Error
X The instruction at "0x02974112" referenced memory at "0x02c56ab0."
The memory could not be read.
Click OK to terminate the program.
---------------------------------------------
(Googled the above message and could not find a fix that worked)
Everything was frozen and I couldn't click on anything. So I did ctrl-alt-delete and got the Task Lisk and closed out Internet Explorer and the error message, and then opened up Firefox.
Will getting a new NIC (still have to check if it's internal or a NIC) and downgrading to IE7 fix this, or does this info point to something new?
Please advise. Thanks!
IE was shutting down on this system pretty often, but there were also a bunch of trojans on it. So I formatted the c drive, reinstalled xp pro, office pro, avira, ad-aware, spybot, and, spywareblaster. I left the D partition alone, where the user's docs are located.
Now, after the fresh install, IE is still shutting down out of the blue and sometimes it still freezes. I did notice when I installed the drivers for the motherboard that one did not install. It's called the ATM Network Controller. I guess that may indicate that there is a PCI NIC installed? I'm not at the system, so I can't check.
What could be causing this behavior? Could it be because I did not format the D partition when I formatted the C partition, and there are still some threats creating havoc? Most viruses and spyware usually attack the c drive. Do any attack a partition that does not have an OS?
Based on what I've told you so far, do you suggest that I reformat the D drive, format both drives and start over, or do you think I should look for and install the driver for the ATM Network Controller (by PCI NIC (if there is one) and downgrade to IE7 (some claim IE8 does not play well with XP, however, I believe IE7 was running before I formatted the C drive initially)?
The model of the mobo is PCChips M863G.
UPDATE:
Here's the latest:
First I got the error message that said Internet Explorer had encountered an error and had to shut down and then the screen froze and I couldn't do anything. Then another error screen appeared with a big red X with the following error message:
---------------------------------------------
Sysfader: iexplore.exe - Application Error
X The instruction at "0x02974112" referenced memory at "0x02c56ab0."
The memory could not be read.
Click OK to terminate the program.
---------------------------------------------
(Googled the above message and could not find a fix that worked)
Everything was frozen and I couldn't click on anything. So I did ctrl-alt-delete and got the Task Lisk and closed out Internet Explorer and the error message, and then opened up Firefox.
Will getting a new NIC (still have to check if it's internal or a NIC) and downgrading to IE7 fix this, or does this info point to something new?
Please advise. Thanks!
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