im getting jumbled letters on the bios bott screen in the area where it says Checking CD-ROM... and all that. sometimes it just frrezes. and if windoes makes it to the boot screen it will reboot straight after it. but any other time i boot i get this message, this is a legit clean install of XP home by the way. what can you make of this? TRAP 00000006 ==================EXCEPTION tr = 0028 cro = 800000011 cr2 = 00000000 cr3 = 00039000 GDT Limit = 03ff Base = 0003F000 idt limit = 07FF base = 0003F400 CS: eip=0008 : 004UCC35 SS: Esp = 0010 : 0005F87C errcode = 0000 flags = 00010006 Nocy No2r IntDis Down TrapDis eax - 800872B8 Ebx = 800873FB Ecx = 80087498 Edx = 0005F920 ds = 0010 es = 0010 edi = 00000005 esi = 80087498 ebp 0005F899 Cr0 = 80000011 Fs = 0030 Gs = 0000 Thats it! what happened is about a month ago, i turned the computer on. explorer didnt start up (it was running extremly slow btw, which was unusuall...not that its fast, its an acer) i turned it on, didnt load explorer process, so i started task manager and started it manually, then when ever i clicked on an icon it didnt do anything and the taskbar had the little loading cursor over it and it was like that for about 20 mins until i gave up and rebooted it. when i booted it back up it ran dskcheck. so i let it go and it froze on dskcheck. huh????? why!?!?! so i booted it up AGAIN!! and it did the same thing. then after about the 3rd rebootup i did it was just rebooting itself right after the XP boot screen... so i reinstaled XP on its HDD and test it on my computer, and well its fine, so that rules out the HDD. i tested the ram aswell as diffrent sticks and it still wont boot, so its not the ram. So i was thinking... mabey the CPU or the BIOS...? Better not be the bios cuz its soldered on! oh and ive tried onboard, and 2 graphics card and it does the same thing. Its an Acer Aspire SA10. 2 x 256MB ddr 400MHz RAM. 1 Single core 2.80GHz Celeron D. (socket 478 or something, the one before 775) geforce 5200. can ya help me fix this tin can? thanks!!
Sounds like a CPU mess, but I could be wrong. (I conjectured this because you could boot before.) Was there a CD in the optical drive? If so, take it out. I'm guessing you're using a desktop computer. Is it a desktop or a laptop? Try googling it, too.
hehheh i actually did fix it, i know i said i tested the ram, but i never actually took out the ram that came with it, i thought that that ram was the problem, and i thought taking it out would be pointless. and annoying cuz its hard getting the desktop back into its cave with all the wires in. but in the end i thought... well ok, ill give it one try. so i did... and it worked. lol all that time wasted!!!!! So yea... if anyone else has this problem test ALL of your ram first!!! but if anyone reads this. for some reason when i open up windows activation and click activate over the net. it says it failed to connect to there server or something... i think its because im on wireless is there a fix for that?? thanks
You did reinstall right so you'd have to setup your wifi again or just use hardwired to get it activated
