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RedVR6 · 11-09-2001, 11:43 AM

Hi all...been lurking a bit in here reading all the XP info and want to give Reboot a thumbs up on his excellent, informative posts in here.

I recently did a clean install XP Professional (Full) on one of my partitions to test it out. It's dual booting with Win98, which I recently did a fresh install on as well...so I figured I would give XP a trial run before going 100%. My specs are as follows:

Duron 800 on an IWill KK266+
192MB PC100 RAM
SB LIve!
6.4G HDD
2G HDD (I need a new HDD, I know

)
ATI Ragy Fury
40x CD
3Com 10/100 NIC
Adaptec SCSI card
...and a few other things.

One thing I have noticed with my verison of XP here is that I getting random crashes that bring the machine all the way down to its knees and then reboots. Seems to be happening when the machine is sitting idle for an extended period of time. I do not have much running in the background other than Zone Alarm, MS Messenger, and my UD proggie...mainly due to me testing this all out. A friend of mine also is having this issue happen once or twice a day on his XP Pro as well. Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this??

Overall, I am very happy with XP and thinking of making it my main OS while I still maintain 98 on the machine...for the time being. One more question...can I install XP and then install Win98 afterwards to maintain a dual boot? Or do I need to install Win98 first then XP?

Thanks!

11-09-2001, 11:43 AM	#1
RedVR6 Member (9 bit) Join Date: Jul 1999 Location: Basking Ridge, NJ Posts: 334	Random XP Reboots/Crashes...just an Observation Hi all...been lurking a bit in here reading all the XP info and want to give Reboot a thumbs up on his excellent, informative posts in here. I recently did a clean install XP Professional (Full) on one of my partitions to test it out. It's dual booting with Win98, which I recently did a fresh install on as well...so I figured I would give XP a trial run before going 100%. My specs are as follows: Duron 800 on an IWill KK266+ 192MB PC100 RAM SB LIve! 6.4G HDD 2G HDD (I need a new HDD, I know ) ATI Ragy Fury 40x CD 3Com 10/100 NIC Adaptec SCSI card ...and a few other things. One thing I have noticed with my verison of XP here is that I getting random crashes that bring the machine all the way down to its knees and then reboots. Seems to be happening when the machine is sitting idle for an extended period of time. I do not have much running in the background other than Zone Alarm, MS Messenger, and my UD proggie...mainly due to me testing this all out. A friend of mine also is having this issue happen once or twice a day on his XP Pro as well. Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this?? Overall, I am very happy with XP and thinking of making it my main OS while I still maintain 98 on the machine...for the time being. One more question...can I install XP and then install Win98 afterwards to maintain a dual boot? Or do I need to install Win98 first then XP? Thanks! __________________ DBK '95 GLX - Work in Progress '99 Homemade Duron Box Come Visit VWEnthusiast.com!