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by shrek187 2 views

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I recently built my first PC I wanted to see how hard it was and if I could build a reasonably cheap but sturdy PC. Below are the Parts listed.
Motherboard: Foxconn Core series
CPU: Intel Celeron 2.5 GHZ Processor
Ram: 512 MB
OS: XP Home Edition Sp2
GPU: ATI Radeon 300X SE 128MB
Now all went fine at first until I decided that I would like to upgrade the Processor to a
Core 2 Duo. 4300 1.8 GHZ Since then I've been getting the odd crash the PC just restarts itself back up.
I then get an error report telling me a list of probable causes which are not very specific.
Has anyone any suggestions as to what the problem could be.
Thanks

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by sgt_shultz

I think you will need to reinstall windows to fix, don't believe you can just replace the hal. check it out at support.microsoft.com

by rclark2

go to advanced and turn off automatic reboot on error.

Then at least you should get a blue screen with the information on what is going on.....

Once you have the number from the blue screen, type it into google and cross your fingers.....

Hope this is not hopelessly inane.......

by ugadata

Have you tried resetting the CMOS? Either by choosing the "SAFEST" settings (this was sort of suggested by a previous post) or by using the jumper to reset back to defaults.

have you verified that you have the latest BIOS for the motherboard? If not then download and flash the BIOS.

Re-install OS using the repair option.

The motherboard does support the processor, right? it's possible even though the processor is supported, it may require the latest BIOS upgrade

by mjd420nova

Check out the processor web site for updated video drivers or try ATI's web site.

by shrek187

I reinstalled XP but I'm still getting the same problems it seems to have something to do with DivX on the web any crashes that I've had have been mostly been on sites using the DivX web pluggin. I've also checked the settings on my motherboard it there dos not seem to be any settings I can change. And the motherboard definitely states I can use Core 2 Duo.

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