rberry88
03-29-2003, 09:58 PM
Ater various attempts to uncover the mystery of why my system had become rather unstable in the last 5 weeks I finally pulled the plug.
I bought a HP5455 PPC from CompUSA 5 weeks ago and haven't been happier, but with all good things there usually is some bad things lingering. I have a Gateway computer, 1.1 GHz AMD, 512 MB RAM, 2- 80 GB Seagate Harddrives, a CD-RW, DVD-RW, and a GeForce Ti 4400 video card. A setup I am completly happy with, until the instability started about 4 weeks ago. Over the past 4 weeks I have completely reformated both 80 GB hard drives and re-installed Windows XP three times, which was a monumental task in itself, but the instability issues keep coming back. I was on the phone with Gateway support more times than I was with my own mother trying to find the problem. The major problem I faced was that my computer began having troubles booting up, it would get to the initial splash screen and freeze, and it was only after 4-5 hard restarts that it would finally finish booting, now how fun is that?
Well, since my wife is on vacation with her parents for the week, I took it upon myself to once and for all rid myself of these problems. I started by formatting the HDD's, re-installing Windows XP and carefully installing other stuff one by one checking the stability of each. After 46 hours of getting my system to a rather well working environment, I plugged my PPC USB cable into my computer thinking my troubles were now behind me but alas, the ugly 'instability monster' shows its head again. Now, I was convinced I had isolated the problem to the connection of the PPC to my cpu. Once disconnected the problems disappeared, connected again and they come back. Hmmm, how do I enjoy both worlds, PPC and stable operating system??
My quest, I feel, is on the right path. However, until I can find out the actual 'issue' the two, XP & PPC, have with each other I will not be truly happy.
Sorry for the long post/rant but I had to get it out to save any of my other electronic devices from being hurt in the residual splatter.
rberry
I bought a HP5455 PPC from CompUSA 5 weeks ago and haven't been happier, but with all good things there usually is some bad things lingering. I have a Gateway computer, 1.1 GHz AMD, 512 MB RAM, 2- 80 GB Seagate Harddrives, a CD-RW, DVD-RW, and a GeForce Ti 4400 video card. A setup I am completly happy with, until the instability started about 4 weeks ago. Over the past 4 weeks I have completely reformated both 80 GB hard drives and re-installed Windows XP three times, which was a monumental task in itself, but the instability issues keep coming back. I was on the phone with Gateway support more times than I was with my own mother trying to find the problem. The major problem I faced was that my computer began having troubles booting up, it would get to the initial splash screen and freeze, and it was only after 4-5 hard restarts that it would finally finish booting, now how fun is that?
Well, since my wife is on vacation with her parents for the week, I took it upon myself to once and for all rid myself of these problems. I started by formatting the HDD's, re-installing Windows XP and carefully installing other stuff one by one checking the stability of each. After 46 hours of getting my system to a rather well working environment, I plugged my PPC USB cable into my computer thinking my troubles were now behind me but alas, the ugly 'instability monster' shows its head again. Now, I was convinced I had isolated the problem to the connection of the PPC to my cpu. Once disconnected the problems disappeared, connected again and they come back. Hmmm, how do I enjoy both worlds, PPC and stable operating system??
My quest, I feel, is on the right path. However, until I can find out the actual 'issue' the two, XP & PPC, have with each other I will not be truly happy.
Sorry for the long post/rant but I had to get it out to save any of my other electronic devices from being hurt in the residual splatter.
rberry