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Windows 2000 closes apps at random!

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by awarner 1 view

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Greetings. I just purchased a new PC without an operating system. I installed 2000 on it myself which had no issues on my old PC (Dell Pentium II 400Mhz). My new PC is an AMD Athalon 1.33Ghz, 256M ram and an Nvidia Riva TNT2 64. While using any application (this has happened on Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, The Sims, UnReal and Netscape), the application closes without any warning or error of any kind. Poof! It's gone. If I was typing an E-mail or playing a game, everything is lost. No error messages, just back to the desktop. The applications restart without any problem but can close at any time. I'm holding my breath just typing this hoping to click submit before IE closes on me! Does anyone have any idea WHY and WHAT might be causing this. I have never used an AMD system before. At least an error message would be something! Thanks!

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by dmiles

There is a known issue running Windows on AMD over 500 mhz,their seems to be a timing problem when loading windows,go to AMD web site and check for patches in ref to this issue.
One option if it is a timing problem was to reset the jumpers on the motherboard pertaining to the timing, you will have to slow the timing down,then install Windows,then you can reset the jumpers after running setup.
Ref:www.amd.com

by awarner

Thanks, AMD had a patch for issues between the processor and the AGP port. Once installed, it seems to be ok now. I didn't find anything on the timing issue and I know serveral people run windows on AMDs over 500Mhz without issues. I was the first to have a problem. But you did lead me in the right direction!

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