Guest Malke Posted October 30, 2008 Posted October 30, 2008 Re: Keep getting random crashes/restarts in xp on dual boot vista xp system cj75s wrote: > > Hi > > I'm new here and find all this info great. Kind of new to vista as well > so its a mine of information for me. Thanks to you all. > > My problem is this: > > I was running xp pro with sp2 fine for a couple of years and now have > taken the plunge to go to vista and of course decided to go the dual > boot way. I have XP on 1 sata drive and have loaded Vista premium home > on another sata drive. Vista is working fine, however when I boot into > xp it runs for a while then just crashes to restart the pc. It never > used to do this when it was just xp. my system is: > > amd 3800 dual core processor > 2.5 gb ram > 512 mb graphics > pci sound card (can't remember the make off hand) > 2 x Sata hdd plugged directly to sata ports on mobo.(these have the > xp/vista loaded) > 1 x pci sata card with a sata drive plugged into it > 3 other ide hdd's > 1 dvd/cd re-writer - ide > > 500 watt psu > > this is a home built system and has been working fine before vista. > There is no BSOD so can't even find a possible reason for the crashes. > > Anyone any ideas. > > I don't really want to attempt a repair on xp as it contains quite a > few programs/ games I have used over the years and don't fancy trying to > re-install them. Since Vista is running fine and the issues are with XP, this is really not a Vista question. I've cross-posted this to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general for you. In XP, set your computer to not automatically restart so you can get a Stop Error blue screen. Then you can research the Stop Error. System>Advanced>Startup and Recovery>Settings and under System Failure uncheck "Automatically Restart" http://www.aumha.org/win5/kbestop.htm - Stop Errors You should also look in XP's Event Viewer for clues. Start>Run>eventvwr.msc [enter] Another useful troubleshooting technique is to do a clean boot in XP to see if something you have running is the culprit. Clean boot in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310353 Clean-boot advanced troubleshooting in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316434 How to Troubleshoot By Using the Msconfig Utility in Windows XP - http://support.microsoft.com/?id=310560 And in case you weren't aware of the issues in dual-booting Vista and XP (although probably not at all related to your problem): Dual Booting Windows Vista & Windows XP - http://bertk.mvps.org/html/dualboot.html Malke -- MS-MVP Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic! FAQ - http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ
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