i bought an acer aspire 5100 a while back, it came with vista. its been like 6 months or so since i got it and i decided to install xp on a seperate partition. it all worked fine, i got all the drivers and all, there's only a slight problem. when i choose to boot the computer to xp, as soon as i choose xp from that moment on, the computer can suddenly shut off at any moment, whether 2 seconds later or 30 minutes later... i cant seem to find a solution. my specs are- processor- amd turion 64x2 (dual core) mobile technology 1.6 ghz. graphics- integrated radeon xpress 1100 series HDD- 160 GB (i think its SATA) << could this problem be occuring due to the fact that my hard drive is a serial ATA one? ram- 2 gig ddr2 i hope someone can help ... thanks in advance
Due to your lack of patience in multi-posting and bumping your thread, I thought about not helping you. But , My good friend Dave , is correct , that we all makee mistakes, And I am here to help , having a similar problem before. In the future , please be patient , as we are all here in our free time, and sometimes harder problems/questions take longer to answer, This is not a sata problem but more due to a bad memory dump. Anywho , I had the similar problem directed at the ATI driver, and the way Vista uses video memory. Here's a breakdown of the problem I had. I have had this issue, or one similar, since Vista RC1. It comprises the system locking up so hard that frequently it is unable to display even a BSOD. Running debugging tools (on the rare occasion that the system is able to write a memory dump) always points to atikmdag.sys as the culprit. If it happens it'll happen within the first few hours of the system being on (could be 5 minutes after boot-up, or 2 hours). If it "survives", it'll be rock solid from then onwards. It usually (but not always) happens at the same time the mouse is clicked It will occasionally happen during boot-up I also seem to have lost the VPU recover option in CCC, so when it crashes, it's gone. Here's How I fixed my problem hopefully this might help as well. Anyone else having issues with the display driver , or random crashes in games or when trying to dual-boot your system with ATI graphics please read also: First I downloaded the current release of the catalyst driver. (The driver only, we wont be installing it per SE, but manually installing the driver in the device manager. http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html We need to extract the ati software from its .exe that was downloaded, but not install it, Once you double click the ati driver .exe it will extract the install files to c:\ati This is the driver we will need. Once the program starts to install , CANCEL and close it. All we needed was to extract the drivers from the executable. After downloading, remove all of the installed ati software, Including display driver and Control center (if installed). Next through the control panel, access device manager. And uninstall /.diable your current video driver. (your screen will change to Horrid resolution that's OK). DO NOT restart the computer . else the OS will install the basic drivers for it , and we want no driver installed . Now in control panel Click "add new hardware" And soon windows will again detect your video card, When it asks for a driver , browse to the c:\ati folder where we extracted the newest drivers. The computer will then install your graphics card using the driver only and Not ATI's software. You may have to do the similar thing when you are dual-booting into xp after manually adding the driver under xp. This fixed all my problems, I have had no driver problems or BSOD since, Able to load xp under Virtual pc 2007 as well. These simple steps should fix your problems. Also I recommend running XP under "Virtual PC 2007" instead. (which is made for Vista , and is free from Microsoft website.) This would eliminate any future problems as well. Best of luck ,
hey thanks for the reply, um... you're right, i shouldnt have multi-posted and shouldnt have gotten impatient but i guess next time ill have learned from my mistake. thanks again, i kind of feel that i didnt deserve the reply but i guess i got lucky this time. and i also thank your friend dave for his support as well. ill try your suggestion and i hope it will help =D
I'm sure there are others with the same problem, So It wouldn't be fair for me NOT to help if I can, That would defeat the purpose of being a valued member on the site. Also in the future name your thread titles more relevant to your problem, Example " Windows crashes when dual booting Vista/XP." This not only help you get responses faster, But also helps those that are having the same problems, And are here looking for support. Make sure to let us know how it goes. Best of luck and welcome to the forums.
thanks, i've just got a question (even though im about to attempt what you told me because i didnt have time earlier) do i do this on xp or vista? (im going to try it on xp first then if it doesnt work then ill try it on vista also, unless of course if i you tell me which OS to do this on before i start =D)
I would recommend doing it on vista first, Then XP. You will have to do it on both OS for the fixes to work. Good luck
ehh, i've just done it on both but i do have another question, first i did it on vista, after i finished everything, i did not restart the computer and go back to vista, but i restarted and went straight to xp, and i did it on xp. after i completed the process in xp i restarted the xp os and went back on it so- vista- complete, shutdown. xp- complete, restart, use xp. but then it shut off on me again lol (by the way, i dont know if you experienced this but when it shuts off it wont let me turn it on for like 2-5 minutes, when i click on the power button it wont do anything then when i try after 5 minutes the computer allows me to turn on) my question is, when i did the process in vista, should i have restarted and went back to vista for the changes to take effect then went to do xp? did the way i did it, by going straight to xp after i was done with vista cause the problem not to be fixed? i myself have no idea xD. thanks for the help
I would have check to first to make sure everything was okay on vista first, But that process worked great for me, although as I posted before I use "virtual PC 2007" when I NEED to run XP , (Which is free from the Microsoft website). Maybe dual-booting with Vista is too much for OS, It sounds like your overheating. I would get a free program called "Speed-fan", http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php And check your Core temps as well. It may be better for you to run XP , through Virtual PC as well. Best of luck ,
ah yes, i totally forgot about virtual pc 2007, i just got home so i will download it and run xp with it; hopefully i'll get some results, and i should check my core temp's as well, im pretty sure it has something to do with temperature because when i run xp from the beginning (like when i first turn on the computer) it runs fine for a longer period of time, but when i run vista for a while and then switch to xp (when i want to play games, becuase vista sucks for gaming) the computer would be warm already so it doesnt run as long before shutting off on me. the thing is, when its the same temperature in vista, it doesnt shut off, i think xp recognizes the temp as too high, while vista runs fine with it so if theres a way to make xp able to withstand more heat without shutting off i would try that as well.
