Windows XP keep crashing

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Windows XP keep crashing

Hello

I've been running Windows XP Pro on my MacBook Air via Bootcamp for a few months and it's been nothing but trouble. It keeps crashing when I close the lid to sleep. Nearly every second time I open the lid the machine has crashed and needs restarting. It quite often crashes in daily use too. It's driving me mad, and I'm very tempted to sell it and go back to a PC.

Can anyone suggest how I could diagnise and repair this please?

thanks a lot

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.5.4), Windows XP Pro via Boot Camp

Posted on Nov 16, 2008 10:07 AM

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wordsman Author

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Nov 17, 2008 12:58 AM in response to wordsman

A thought just occurred to me. I hear that Vista's power management is better sorted than XP's. Perhaps installing Vista would help. Bit concerned that it would be even slower though - I find the machine pretty sleepy at the best of times.

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wordsman Author

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Nov 21, 2008 1:26 AM in response to wordsman

anyone?

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rez7

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Nov 22, 2008 9:41 PM in response to wordsman

Well I just resolved almost a year long problem with the blue screen of death (BSOD) every 10 or 20 minutes - neither Apple nor Windows help could solve. Problem was masked as I upgraded to bootcamp 2.1 and winxp sp3 and a new version of Norton AV at around the same time. I kept thinking that it must be either the sp or bootcamp and tried repairs and eventually reloaded the whole system with no improvement. 2 nights ago I removed the Norton AV (from the winxp partition) and replaced with Trend Micro's internet security and for the first time in almost a year I've had no crashes - my daughter used the xp partition to do a power point presentation and spent several hours with no problems....

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wordsman Author

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Nov 24, 2008 5:11 AM in response to rez7

Thanks. So maybe the thing is to remove programs one by one and see if things improve.

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HaraldS

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Nov 28, 2008 5:32 PM in response to wordsman

I switched to running it under VMware in a virtual machine with sparse drive.

Stable, did not have to reboot, and it dealt better with the limited disk space on the Air (I have the SSD).

On my new MacBook Pro, I use Boot Camp and Vista 64. But power management is poor. Most of the time, I use VMware Fusion to load the Boot Camp partition.

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Nov 30, 2008 2:25 PM in response to rez7

I have had these issues on my new Macbook Pro 17" and had to spend hours on the phone with Apple (well actually my assistant did)installing XP Home. Now that it has been working a few weeks I have developed other issues.

1. My track pad sporatically goes crazy with the cursor when trying to scroll the internet in Firefox. I scroll to my location then go to select something and bang right to the bottom of the page... anyone able to help?

2. I can not select a resolution in the XP control panel that makes objects appear correctly... like circles appear oblong etc.

3. After several hours it flashes a blue screen with text so quickly it can't be read and then the computer restarts... it *****.

I am an old Mac user back to '84... any help would be appreciated.

aaaspark@yahoo.com.
Doug

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