SinfulDust
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Greetings from Australia!
As the title says, I can boot into and do anything I like in OS X. Recently though when I boot into XP it freezes at various stages. Initially it was during the XP boot screen (logo + scrolling bar), once it got to the Welcome screen it would login and run just fine (playing games for 6-10 hours with no hiccups). Over the last few days it's taken to freezing during the Welcome screen, and now during regular use. There's no warning and no response aside from killing the machine from the power button.
On the other hand, OS X runs 100% fine with no issues whatsoever.
From this I guessed it was a software screwup in Windows, since the hardware appeared to run just fine. It couldn't have helped that I had a virus on my external HDD which spread to the Windows partition, but I was able to fix that successfully.
Steps attempted that I can remember:
*Ran chkdsk and fixboot using the recovery console (twice)
*Fixed the registry entries for config.sys etc
*Ran a memtest on both OS X and XP (no errors)
*Deleted Daemon Tools (it was preventing Safe Mode from booting properly)
I suspect the virus messed with the registry entries to the point that Daemon Tools (sptd.sys) and AVG were preventing Safe Mode from booting, but I have no idea why it allowed me into normal mode. I also have what I believe are fairly common issues with the fans while running in XP, and the computer does get uncommonly hot. I use the excellent Input Remapper to keep the fans running constantly.
So long and short, I don't have the tools to fully open the computer to clean out the fans (if they're dirty) and I can't format the partition without the OS X install disks.
When back in Ireland (where both me and laptop are originally from) there were no issues in either OS X or XP. As it stands, the Windows partition is the bigger half, and all of my games and music are there and as I said I can't format it.
The only thing that has worked (so far) is removing one of the sticks of RAM. I'm not holding my breath that it will continue to hold out though. Plus I can't understand how a bad stick of RAM would only affect XP, nor why memtest didn't pick up any errors.
It's a 15" MacBook Pro, 2x2GB (4GB) of DDR RAM. ~250GB HDD. OS X is largely clean, XP probably not so much but it was working excellently back home. No reported driver errors.
I can survive on one stick of RAM, but I'd much rather have two for the more intensive games. Are there any suggestions amongst the wise folks of these forums? Bear in mind I don't have a second laptop to play around with to test the "bad" RAM.
Cheers! And apologises for the length.
~SFD
As the title says, I can boot into and do anything I like in OS X. Recently though when I boot into XP it freezes at various stages. Initially it was during the XP boot screen (logo + scrolling bar), once it got to the Welcome screen it would login and run just fine (playing games for 6-10 hours with no hiccups). Over the last few days it's taken to freezing during the Welcome screen, and now during regular use. There's no warning and no response aside from killing the machine from the power button.
On the other hand, OS X runs 100% fine with no issues whatsoever.
From this I guessed it was a software screwup in Windows, since the hardware appeared to run just fine. It couldn't have helped that I had a virus on my external HDD which spread to the Windows partition, but I was able to fix that successfully.
Steps attempted that I can remember:
*Ran chkdsk and fixboot using the recovery console (twice)
*Fixed the registry entries for config.sys etc
*Ran a memtest on both OS X and XP (no errors)
*Deleted Daemon Tools (it was preventing Safe Mode from booting properly)
I suspect the virus messed with the registry entries to the point that Daemon Tools (sptd.sys) and AVG were preventing Safe Mode from booting, but I have no idea why it allowed me into normal mode. I also have what I believe are fairly common issues with the fans while running in XP, and the computer does get uncommonly hot. I use the excellent Input Remapper to keep the fans running constantly.
So long and short, I don't have the tools to fully open the computer to clean out the fans (if they're dirty) and I can't format the partition without the OS X install disks.
When back in Ireland (where both me and laptop are originally from) there were no issues in either OS X or XP. As it stands, the Windows partition is the bigger half, and all of my games and music are there and as I said I can't format it.
The only thing that has worked (so far) is removing one of the sticks of RAM. I'm not holding my breath that it will continue to hold out though. Plus I can't understand how a bad stick of RAM would only affect XP, nor why memtest didn't pick up any errors.
It's a 15" MacBook Pro, 2x2GB (4GB) of DDR RAM. ~250GB HDD. OS X is largely clean, XP probably not so much but it was working excellently back home. No reported driver errors.
I can survive on one stick of RAM, but I'd much rather have two for the more intensive games. Are there any suggestions amongst the wise folks of these forums? Bear in mind I don't have a second laptop to play around with to test the "bad" RAM.
Cheers! And apologises for the length.
~SFD