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by merrill

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I recently built a 1.6ghz P4 computer it has 512m of ddr ram, 60g Maxtor hard drive, a Lite-On DVD player and HP cd16 cd writer. I opted to load XP Home but now even with the bios and driver updates at times the computer will "forget" its display settings and a few times after loading programs during the execution of them they will simply stop without prompting to do so and further more it has at times revert to a time before programs were installed it would literally erase recently installed programs. the frustration would lie in resetting these attributes once the computer decides to "forget" them. I use SystemSuite 4.0 for the AV and firewall duties any help would be much appreciated thanks

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by service

In safe mode, check if all your drivers are loaded properly. If so, do not hesitate to fepartition and reformat the Hard Drive and reload the operating system. Then do all your pertinent updates. If the problem persists, then there is a hardware problem, most likely , the video card. If it is an integrated video, you may have to replace the motherboard. I hope this helps.

by merrill

Well, you were right on the nose the systemsuite 4.0 was in conflict with the normal error processes that xp has. upon further inspection of xp's features found that xp has all the bells and whistles that the other package had so having everything backed up the cd's reinstalled everything but systemsuite 4.0 use xp's firewall and put in norton 2002 for the anti-virus. the video driver needed a update so with all this the machine is very stable. the lesson? keep things simple. I don't recommend systemsuite for xp but is great for 98 or me. however since xp's burning utilities don't support a drag and drop for cd-rw I'm considering my options. thanks for the info

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