Hello All,
I though I would relate a chronological day-by-day happening of crashes I have in Microsoft Windows XP. I feel that my Xperiences will be interesting, and could be use to correlate experiences by others. To date, I've had XP crash on me three times since I started playing with it about a week ago.
The PC in question is based on an Abit VT6X4 mobo with a PII-400 running in stock clocking (i.e. not overclocked). I have 256MB of Kingston memory, an Elsa Gladiac MX 32MB SDRAM AGP video board, Sound Blaster Live! Value, 3COM 3C509b-TX NIC, SigmaDesigns Hollywood Plus MPEG Decoder, Sony DVD-ROM, and a couple of Western Digital 7200 RPM 20GB IDE drives.
On Wednesday, November 7th, I was powering down the XP PC when she froze up and after about 30 minutes or so I hit the reset button. Upon rebooting XP wanted to send a message to its momma, but I refused. This was an upgrade from a bare-install of Windows 98 First Edition and I just attributed it to upgrade-problems although the install resided on an NTFS partition.
On Saturday, November 10th, I reinstalled on a clean disk insyead of over a pre-existing install. All seemed to go fine, but then while playing with MS Windows Media Player and accessing a file on a networked PC (full duplex 100Mbps) she stalled and then spontaneously rebooted. I like this feature. One way to keep me from ENJOYING myself would be to keep this feature.
Bare in mind that before I install any application or try to play with the new environment I make sure to have the latest drives and install the latest Updates from MS. So, this came to me as a surprise to have it happen again. treating it as a fluke with the Media Player I ignored it and waited for the reboot, which brought two more requests to call home for momma. No way!
Well, Sunday, November 11th I was looking at the various defaultly installed screen savers and when I selected 3D pipes she froze, again. And like before with the media player a pause without the ability to do anything followed with a spontaneous reboot. Hmmm, ok. I will make sure not to use the mediaplayer or the screen saver. What else should I avoid doing ...
So far my Windows 98 FE has been the most rock solid consumer Microsoft platform I've had. On a fileserver my dueling W2KS/MD81 are also rock solid. So, I wonder how MS can take a decently stable 2K code, modify the GUI, label it XP, and cause it to behave in such a dire manner. Oh yeah, I forgot we are talking about MS, here. That explains everything.
Do not buy XP. It isn't worth the eye candy. If one cannot use the age-old MS apps then what good is it!?!
I though I would relate a chronological day-by-day happening of crashes I have in Microsoft Windows XP. I feel that my Xperiences will be interesting, and could be use to correlate experiences by others. To date, I've had XP crash on me three times since I started playing with it about a week ago.
The PC in question is based on an Abit VT6X4 mobo with a PII-400 running in stock clocking (i.e. not overclocked). I have 256MB of Kingston memory, an Elsa Gladiac MX 32MB SDRAM AGP video board, Sound Blaster Live! Value, 3COM 3C509b-TX NIC, SigmaDesigns Hollywood Plus MPEG Decoder, Sony DVD-ROM, and a couple of Western Digital 7200 RPM 20GB IDE drives.
On Wednesday, November 7th, I was powering down the XP PC when she froze up and after about 30 minutes or so I hit the reset button. Upon rebooting XP wanted to send a message to its momma, but I refused. This was an upgrade from a bare-install of Windows 98 First Edition and I just attributed it to upgrade-problems although the install resided on an NTFS partition.
On Saturday, November 10th, I reinstalled on a clean disk insyead of over a pre-existing install. All seemed to go fine, but then while playing with MS Windows Media Player and accessing a file on a networked PC (full duplex 100Mbps) she stalled and then spontaneously rebooted. I like this feature. One way to keep me from ENJOYING myself would be to keep this feature.
Bare in mind that before I install any application or try to play with the new environment I make sure to have the latest drives and install the latest Updates from MS. So, this came to me as a surprise to have it happen again. treating it as a fluke with the Media Player I ignored it and waited for the reboot, which brought two more requests to call home for momma. No way!
Well, Sunday, November 11th I was looking at the various defaultly installed screen savers and when I selected 3D pipes she froze, again. And like before with the media player a pause without the ability to do anything followed with a spontaneous reboot. Hmmm, ok. I will make sure not to use the mediaplayer or the screen saver. What else should I avoid doing ...
So far my Windows 98 FE has been the most rock solid consumer Microsoft platform I've had. On a fileserver my dueling W2KS/MD81 are also rock solid. So, I wonder how MS can take a decently stable 2K code, modify the GUI, label it XP, and cause it to behave in such a dire manner. Oh yeah, I forgot we are talking about MS, here. That explains everything.
Do not buy XP. It isn't worth the eye candy. If one cannot use the age-old MS apps then what good is it!?!
