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I have a Dell Dimension 4100. It came with XP and had major problems. The hard drive was cleared and ME was installed. All drivers/programs installed were ME compatable. About every 30 days the thing crashes. This time is the worst - blue screens, numerous error messages, etc. Scanned for viruses - none. Did a selective start and found a long list of things causing it to hang, give error messages of all kinds. I'm just wondering if an automatic update for XP could be buried somewhere that updates drivers, etc making it incompatable with the current ME operating system. As I stated, this happens at almost exact 30 day intervals.
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Posted August 19th, 2002 14:00
Yes, a complete format was done when ME was installed. I won't put XP back in - that had major problems from the start like not allowing access to Word documents that I had put in there. They were not passworded - they just wouldn't open. Along with the fact that crashed about once a week. ME works great the first 30 days after I installed it and on every reinstall there after. About the 30th day, CRASH (which is better than the once a week thing with XP). If it were conflicting drivers, why the 30 day wait to start acting up? Nothing has been installed or changed that would cause a new conflict You were having problems with 98SE? That surprises me. I have that on one of my systems and I've never had any problems with it. No, I'm not going to install 98SE on the ME system :-)
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Posted August 19th, 2002 21:00
Yeah. I was having problems all of the time. Kept having problems with my boot sector being incorrect. I scaned for viruses, trojans, worms, spyware, you name it, I did it.
Ended up doing 10 Low level formats and 4 regular formats. I just gave up, and bought XP because I had heard of it's stability and reccomendation, and installed it, and haven't had a problem since...
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Posted August 20th, 2002 15:00
I think maybe Dell oopsed in this case. I noticed that when we got the system there were two hard drives listed even though there is only one. I had forgotten about it. When I went to reinstall ME last night, scan disk ran and found many, many errors. There were 5 damaged files, "one or more files on C: stood incorrectly and are overwriting each others data, 16 crosslinks on drive C, and numerous other errors. The "extra" hard drive was reinstalled when ME was put in because I chose to restore to the defaults and that put the added one back in and since that one was there from the beginning it apparently is considered a default. I'm glad you are having good luck with XP. I've heard many horror stories about problems with it. But what works well for one, doesn't work so well for the next person. Same with computer systems - I always seem to get the lemons!
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Posted August 19th, 2002 01:00
I really doubt that there is an autoupdate for XP installed on your ME operating system if you did a complete format when you installed ME.
I'm not sure what your problem is (Like you said...It's probably a driver problem), but in your case, the best thing to do would be to do a format and reinstall. If that sounds a bit harsh, go back to XP. Buy the Home (99bucks) or the Pro (199bucks) upgrade, or the complete cd, and install it. I used to get errors every day, and I was doing a format once a month with 98SE, then I bought the XP Home upgrade cd and I haven't had any problems since, and it's been several months now...
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