Computer Issues

[silvercookie 5,000+ posts]

cdan the hdd

 

[tsenfw 10+ year member]

Starting over might not be a bad idea but regardless you always need to make sure you have the correct drivers installed.

Motherboard chipset drivers: go to the motherboard manufacturers support site and grab the latest chipset drivers for your model and for XP.

Ethernet driver: Assuming you're using the onboard one, this is probably be included in the chipset drivers. If not you can grab it off the motherboard manufacturer site.

Same goes for onboard audio drivers.

Videocard drivers

Update XP with service pack 2 if it's not already on that copy of XP. Or just do all the updates off the microsoft site.

Do all this before you attempt to install any programs.

 

[fbi90909 5,000+ posts]

^^

and don't bother with any anti-virus software. don't get spybot. when you format your HD, don't format with with quick format as mentioned earlier.

i don't think this is a hardware issue. i feel it's more of a messed up installation or a program you are running if causing the errors.

 

[chardy85 10+ year member]

First I would make sure you have all of your updates from XP, especially after SP2....

You said that you had the XP version 2002, which I am guessing may not even have sp1 on it.

I know their are like 90updates or so after SP2.....

if the updates don't help I would just reformat the drive again and do a fresh install of XP. Load all the updated drivers from manufacturer's "NOT from Windows"

Make sure you do all the updates you can before you go downloading a bunch of software also.

For Antivirus, I agree with many of these guys saying go with a free version like AVG.

I really like Avast home edition. http://avast.com

For the error reports......for now you could go to Start>run> services.msc and you can turn off Error Reporting Service.

good luck man

curtis