GreatSeaSpider
Programmer
Hi guys,
just bought a second hand laptop for my other half, its a tiny laptop but other than that its pretty good
it came with the default tiny install as done by the tiny recovery disk, which obviously needed to go as quickly as humanly possible (xp on a fat32 partition?!?).
So now i've got xp pro (sp1) installed and the drivers installed ala tiny driver disk, all good except that every now and then, the screen simply switches off and the laptop needs restarting to bring it back to life. At first i feared a hardware problem but after a bit of investigation i discovered that:
1. the factory default tiny install (xp home sp1) with no drivers does NOT display the problem.
2. a virgin xp pro sp1 install with no drivers DOES display the problem.
3. a fully patched xp pro sp1 with drivers DOES display the problem.
(I've checked the power saving settings btw and turned them all off)
any help greatly appreciated as i'd rather not cripple this nice athlon 64 3700+ laptop with a naff tiny xp install
cheers,
Pete
just bought a second hand laptop for my other half, its a tiny laptop but other than that its pretty good
it came with the default tiny install as done by the tiny recovery disk, which obviously needed to go as quickly as humanly possible (xp on a fat32 partition?!?).
So now i've got xp pro (sp1) installed and the drivers installed ala tiny driver disk, all good except that every now and then, the screen simply switches off and the laptop needs restarting to bring it back to life. At first i feared a hardware problem but after a bit of investigation i discovered that:
1. the factory default tiny install (xp home sp1) with no drivers does NOT display the problem.
2. a virgin xp pro sp1 install with no drivers DOES display the problem.
3. a fully patched xp pro sp1 with drivers DOES display the problem.
(I've checked the power saving settings btw and turned them all off)
any help greatly appreciated as i'd rather not cripple this nice athlon 64 3700+ laptop with a naff tiny xp install
cheers,
Pete