Hangs in XP not in Mandrake??

[drdisko]

I have an oldish PC, with an Athlon 1600+. matsonic ms motherboard
The OS was XP until about 1 year ago when it began to freeze or hang. a friend recommended mandrake as he could seen no reason why it should be hanging.I have used Mandrakefor about a year but I am not getting on with linux at all. I have a copy of XP professional that I am trying to install but midway through installation it starts to freeze again.

What could possibly be the reason for this. It didn't freeze once during the last year on Mandrake

 

[drdisko]

ok so i've managed to fully install but windows freezes after maybe 10-20 mins everytime. What can I do to find out whats faulty.

 

[Praetor]

Im guessing memory issues? Have a run through of mamtest86+

Also, what parts are in the box Questions 101

 

[drdisko]

ok ran that cpuz thingy

 

[Praetor]

Does it pass a memtest?

 

[drdisko]

trying to do that now

 

[drdisko]

having trouble creating boot disc with memtest on, do i just burn a blank cd with the .iso on??

 

[drdisko]

did memtest from hcidesigns and there is no probs flagged
can't run the one linked on this thread, also scandisk finds no problems.

 

[Dngrsone]

Please read the Questions 101 that Praetor linked.

Have you tried any other flavors of Linux? Mandrake isn't the only one.

We need to know what you have in the box, what's going on when the system crashes-- programs running, what you are doing at the time teh crash occurs, are the crashes repeatable?

 

[Praetor]

Please read the Questions 101 that Praetor linked.

Most of the important stuff was passed on via the register dump included in post4 ... what other information did you have in mind?

 

[Blue]

I have had a similier prob. I had a known bad HD and tried to instal XP several times before it would instal. Finaly once it installed it would lock up after runing for about 5 minutes (when it would load). I had not problems instaling Mandrake (now Mandriva) and Susie.

Point is perhaps your HD is buggared.

 

[drdisko]

okey dokey, So i shall try buying a new (larger) HD, any compatability issues i should be concerned with. currently have seagate 40gb st340810A.

probably get of ebuyer soany recommendations would be bonus.

cheers

 

[Praetor]

Have a look at HDD 101

 

[drdisko]

OK, so its not the HD. Just tried a new one, can't even get through XP installation without freezing.

 

[Praetor]

See

 

[drdisko]

yeah tried memtest. No problems.

Also changed ram, same problem.
Whats left?

Motherboard?,graphics card?

 

[drdisko]

Still no joy with this problem.
if it was my motherboard, how easy is it to change this??

could it be that my processor Amd 1600+ just can't handle XP?/

 

[drdisko]

also, since I now have a spare HD 40GB. can I connect them both up??

 

[Dngrsone]

Please use the edit feature instead of posting multiple times.

Your processor can handle Win XP just fine, and you should be able to plug the other drive in, provided you don't have four IDE devices already.