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I just recently got rid of windows 2000 professional since it kept freezing my computer w/ no rhyme or reason. I have since gotten rid of it and gone back to 98se. I was just wondering if this would cause windows 2000 to freeze w/o any error messages nor sign.

i noticed that agp was selected at 4x although i know my card is running at 2x, since you have to use a jumper on the card to enable 4x. Could that have been the problem? Who knows just a thought.

here are my specs

Intel 733
Asus Cusl2-C Bios1006A
256mb ram pc133 Rev 2 Mushkin
IBM 20 gb 75gxp using NTFS Primary Master
Maxtor 60 gb using fat32 Secondary master.
Sb Live! Value sound card
Aopen Nic Card
Diamond TNT ultra 2 video card
plextor 40 wide cd rom
teac cdr 56s cd r
adaptec 2940u2w controller

 
Well, there was definately a reason. My guess is drivers, with your NIC, SCSI card or Video Card being the likely candidates, in that order.

Sometimes it helps to remove unneccisary hardware if the problem happens often enough, one piece at a time to isolate the trouble. The stability of the Win2k OS is one of its strong points. I'm thinking you could have fixed it with some basic troubleshooting, IMHO you gave up too easily, unless you have no real need for Win2k.
 
All of my drivers were specifically for Windows 2000. I installed every possible update and every driver was for windows 2000. I just don't see why it would just freeze and not spit an error or something.
 
It is my experience that sometimes even if you have all the most up-to-date 2000 drivers you can still have problems. I found this with my wife's system when I loaded 2000 on it last week. There are certain pieces of hardware that just don't seem to mesh well with 2000. Yes, it is probably an issue of a sub-standard driver but I have no proof of that. In her case it is the Philips Acoustic Edge soundcard that created problems that still exist. Don't feel bad, sometimes it's just "one of them things".
 


<< All of my drivers were specifically for Windows 2000 >>



Wouldn't they have to be?

You have a good variety of different hardware, no suprise at all that you may have a conflict. What kind of entries were listed in event viewer?
 
I'm guessing it was the aopen nic card, your other stuff is pretty name brand and they should have good drivers
 


<< Wouldn't they have to be?

You have a good variety of different hardware, no suprise at all that you may have a conflict. What kind of entries were listed in event viewer? >>


Not necessarily, and just because they say they're Windows 2000 drivers doesn't mean they're very good. Hard lockups such as you're describing aways, in my experiance, point to a hardware/driver issue.
 
Thanks for help guys. The only thing out of the ordinary that i noticed in event viewer was the my cd rom would arrive late. It would get a message saying arrival notification and would show up about 1 min after im in win2000. But besides that,i wasnt getting any other kind of message in the event log.
 
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