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| 1138926 | 2010-09-22 04:37:00 | Intel Pentium 4 2.6ghz | NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 1138927 | 2010-09-22 04:40:00 | alternate power supply made no difference | NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 1138928 | 2010-09-22 04:43:00 | Could be a faulty CPU As it says here www.annoyances.org This XP cd, is it a restore cd or a normal / original XP cd? Is the new hdd the same as the old one? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1138929 | 2010-09-22 04:46:00 | This XP cd, is it a restore cd or a normal / original XP cd? - It's a normal CD Is the new hdd the same as the old one?[/QUOTE] - That I am not sure, sent it away to data recovery |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 1138930 | 2010-09-22 04:56:00 | It looks like this update support.microsoft.com if it was installed caused the mup.sys file to hang, and it also caused the constant rebooting in XP too On one site, someone disabled USB in the BIOS, and managed to uninstall this update (if it was installed), and turned USB back on after. After that it was fine And Mcafee and Norton if you in/uninstalled either could also cause this |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1138931 | 2010-09-22 04:59:00 | Cool, I'll look into this, but it will have to be Thurs am as I have to go, but I will report back. Thank you. ps no mcafee or norton |
NZHawk (4093) | ||
| 1138932 | 2010-09-22 21:28:00 | Well, I would first of all inspect the mobo for any signs of bad capacitors. My own recent experiences with an aging games machine had similar symptoms. Instability which rapidly decended to the point of being unable to boot (wouldn't pass POST). Pulling / swapping components did little to diagnose the fault. The one component I couldn't swap (besides the mobo itself) was the graphics card (AGP). Inspected the card, and found a tiny 'bleb' in one of the gold tracks where the board plugs into the interface. Ran a fingernail over the bleb and it flaked away, leaving a track that was either broken, or only 5% or less intact. Ran a soldering iron over the area to repair the track, and voila - all magically working again. This same graphics card had a bad cap replaced some months ago when issues first began. |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
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