Originally Posted by buksida
Had a customer bring an XP box in (spec below) complaining about crashes, errors, slow running and the usual windows problems. Advised him to put it in a bigger case with more fans to assist cooling as the one he had was barely big enough to house a small family of gerbils.
He goes for the bigger case (and PSU) and a new HDD (for his music). I do the re-build and format the disk to install XP pro. The installation took over 6 hours (i had to leave it running overnight and resume in the morning), to start the thing up takes a good 15 minutes
AMD XP2000
Generic VIA mobo (not sure on brand as it was one of those all-in deals with the whole world on-board)
256 DDR 266
Geforce 4 64Mb 440 (disabled on-board VGA)
Seagate 80Gb 7200
48x CD-RW
So the case, HDD, and PSU are new. I've tried different RAM, a different CPU, clearing BIOS, different IDE cables. Now I'm truly stumped ?!?!?! Dodgy mobo?