Well, I had recently changed the heatsink on my processor. My bios knows when you've taken the processor out, so when you boot it tells you that the processor must be reconfigured. Well, I forgot to change the FSB from 100mhz to 166mhz (AMD Athlon XP 2700+), and I didn't realize this for about a week.
So of course, my system was lagging INCREDIBLY bad. I figured I needed to tweak windows a bit, so I found two guides on the internet called "from Format to Relax" and "from Relax to Righteous". These guides were pretty informative, and I followed through them both.
I rebooted to refresh my system, and noticed (before windows was able to boot back up to see if the changes were successful) that my FSB wasn't configured to its max! So, I changed it back to 166 and continued to boot up windows.
The first problem that I encountered was a memory 'write' error under 'lsass.exe', before my login dialog even appeared! After I hit "OK" on the error, windows was stuck... not frozen, becuase I could still move the mouse, but it never loaded up. So, I reset, and went into safe mode and set all of my services to 'automatic" (the tweak involved disabling some services, for faster bootup and less memory consumption) I figured this would complete omit the fact that the services could be the problem. Sure enough, I boot up again and it either freezes completely (unable to move the mouse) during or before the login dialog, or give 'write' errors on 'lsass.exe'.
So, I changed back to 133mhz, and here I am now. Trying to find what the problem is. My last resort is doing a reinstall of windows, but I don't want to have to do that unless I have no choice.
Also, right after the 'write' error pointing to 'lsass.exe', a blue screen appears with IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL pointing to "NDIS.SYS". And when I'm attempting to change from 166MHz down to 133MHz in my BIOS, it freezes up... and I have to hit the reset button. It only happened the last time I changed it, so I had to quickly run through it before it froze up on me.
I hope someone can help me out, I really don't know what else I can do.
Here is my system specs:
OS: Windows XP Professional SP2
Mobo: Asus A7N8X Deluxe (Bios installed: 1008)
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2700+
RAM: 3x512MB PC2700 Corsair (~1500 Total)
Video Card: AGP nVidia Geforce 6600 GT
PSU: Antec 400w (12v rail == 18a)
Others: Two HDD's (120 && 160 GB), two CD drives (DVD-ROM && CD-RW)
The new heatsink is a volcano 12 I believe...
Any and all help is very well appreciated! Thanks again!
:: EDIT ::
I also noticed that my NIC and my Video Card have the same IRQ (19). I don't know if this is the problem!
So of course, my system was lagging INCREDIBLY bad. I figured I needed to tweak windows a bit, so I found two guides on the internet called "from Format to Relax" and "from Relax to Righteous". These guides were pretty informative, and I followed through them both.
I rebooted to refresh my system, and noticed (before windows was able to boot back up to see if the changes were successful) that my FSB wasn't configured to its max! So, I changed it back to 166 and continued to boot up windows.
The first problem that I encountered was a memory 'write' error under 'lsass.exe', before my login dialog even appeared! After I hit "OK" on the error, windows was stuck... not frozen, becuase I could still move the mouse, but it never loaded up. So, I reset, and went into safe mode and set all of my services to 'automatic" (the tweak involved disabling some services, for faster bootup and less memory consumption) I figured this would complete omit the fact that the services could be the problem. Sure enough, I boot up again and it either freezes completely (unable to move the mouse) during or before the login dialog, or give 'write' errors on 'lsass.exe'.
So, I changed back to 133mhz, and here I am now. Trying to find what the problem is. My last resort is doing a reinstall of windows, but I don't want to have to do that unless I have no choice.
Also, right after the 'write' error pointing to 'lsass.exe', a blue screen appears with IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL pointing to "NDIS.SYS". And when I'm attempting to change from 166MHz down to 133MHz in my BIOS, it freezes up... and I have to hit the reset button. It only happened the last time I changed it, so I had to quickly run through it before it froze up on me.
I hope someone can help me out, I really don't know what else I can do.
Here is my system specs:
OS: Windows XP Professional SP2
Mobo: Asus A7N8X Deluxe (Bios installed: 1008)
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2700+
RAM: 3x512MB PC2700 Corsair (~1500 Total)
Video Card: AGP nVidia Geforce 6600 GT
PSU: Antec 400w (12v rail == 18a)
Others: Two HDD's (120 && 160 GB), two CD drives (DVD-ROM && CD-RW)
The new heatsink is a volcano 12 I believe...
Any and all help is very well appreciated! Thanks again!
:: EDIT ::
I also noticed that my NIC and my Video Card have the same IRQ (19). I don't know if this is the problem!
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