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10-17-2008, 11:59 PM
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Whatever update Microsoft pushed out this week wreaked havoc with my two XP machines. My PVR PC wouldn't shutdown tidily on it's own Windows Update reboot, and my desktop is only booting up properly about 1 time out of 10 attempts (and it's incredibly slow to boot up .. like .. 10 minutes of staring at the little blue bars move sideways under the XP logo).
Yay Microsoft!
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10-18-2008, 12:02 AM
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But oh ya'. I kind of agree with the video driver card too as a potential culprit. 9 times out of 10 I've had hardware problems it's been a bad video card driver, a bad video card, or even sometimes it just wasn't seated properly in the slot (ie., needed a wiggle and thump to get it to shove in the last few microns and connect up properly).
Sometimes just moving the PC around with the cables plugged in, the cable can yank on the video card and that's all it takes. Anyhow, it's worth opening up the case and doing some gentle percussive maintenance on the card. Methinks anyhow..
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10-18-2008, 03:19 AM
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The gigabit mobo model is GA-8IPE1000 (8I not 81), but there is a couple different models and revisions. They all seem to use the same chipset (Intel 865PE), but none the less, lets get it right the first time!
How to identify revision: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...spx?FAQID=2234 Choose your board: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...tID=0&CPUType= I hope it works!
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