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Originally Posted by Aragorn
Goblin,
Problems with WinXP crashing/locking up are most often down to dodgy drivers and notoriously difficult to track down 
A quick google suggested it maybe DirectX related - do you get any errors from dxdiag? |
No, none at all.
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I would suggest getting the latest stable drivers for:
Video card
Sound card
Nic
Motherboard
Update only one driver at a time if poss.
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Ok, I started by updating the video card. As far as windows was concerned, I was using the most upto date ones. However, Steam kept giving me a warning about my current drivers being out of date. So heeded the warning this time and have moved too:
"Installed Drivers nv4_disp (6.14.10.7801 - nVIDIA ForceWare 78.01)" or filename: "78.01_winxp2k_international_whql.exe"
At which point I thought I would check the EventViewer, then received this:
http://img357.imageshack.us/my.php?image=awtf013wy.jpg
and this:
http://img82.imageshack.us/my.php?image=awtf022je.jpg
More DCOM errors than I have ever had before.
Can I assume from this that it is the video card driver?
FWIW I ran dxdiag again after installing these drivers and nothing is wrong as far as that application is concerned. It passed everything. What I have noticed however, is that it takes about 20 seconds longer when rebooting for anything to actually appear on screen ie: the icons and start tray contents.
Incidentally, as far as windows is concerned. All my drivers are upto date.
Can you offer any further advice?