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Presario 7594 locking up
I have an old Compaq 7594 that I upgraded to 1.1 gig processor and the
stock 64 meg ram. Running a 40 gig HD with XP and the original compaq cd rom off of the second IDE cable. (Was) running original compaq bundled software on a 20 gig HD and an HP dvd300i burner off of the first IDE cable. The dvd burner has been in for about 2 years. The processor was installed about 4 months ago as well as a usb2 card and a network card. Shortly before the upgrades the system started locking up while online under 98. Made sure all updates were installed and had no viruses or spyware. The locking up gradually got worse, I uninstalled all the PCI components thinking that a conflict may have developed from a windows update. The system still locked up on 98, never have had problems with XP. I then fdisked and formated the 20 gig to reload the compaq restore. The system started to reload and locked up. I assumed the HD was the problem all along and put in the original 6 gig. I am still locking up trying to reload. What is left? Is it a chance the IDE controller is dying? If so, will the bios let me replace it with a PCI card, I have a few com port cards with IDE controllers lying around. Could it just be the inside needs clean, it is rather dusty possibly leading to too much heat. |
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If you have only 64MB of RAM, it is totally insufficient for XP for
starters. HH wrote in message oups.com... I have an old Compaq 7594 that I upgraded to 1.1 gig processor and the stock 64 meg ram. Running a 40 gig HD with XP and the original compaq cd rom off of the second IDE cable. (Was) running original compaq bundled software on a 20 gig HD and an HP dvd300i burner off of the first IDE cable. The dvd burner has been in for about 2 years. The processor was installed about 4 months ago as well as a usb2 card and a network card. Shortly before the upgrades the system started locking up while online under 98. Made sure all updates were installed and had no viruses or spyware. The locking up gradually got worse, I uninstalled all the PCI components thinking that a conflict may have developed from a windows update. The system still locked up on 98, never have had problems with XP. I then fdisked and formated the 20 gig to reload the compaq restore. The system started to reload and locked up. I assumed the HD was the problem all along and put in the original 6 gig. I am still locking up trying to reload. What is left? Is it a chance the IDE controller is dying? If so, will the bios let me replace it with a PCI card, I have a few com port cards with IDE controllers lying around. Could it just be the inside needs clean, it is rather dusty possibly leading to too much heat. |
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