As Ron suggested, you should install SP2 immediately after the XP install (unless you want to install the Recovery Console) and then the chipset driver. Then your updates and drivers.
Did you create the new HDD partition as FAT32 or NTFS? That's a possible cause also. I also turn off "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" on XP SP2 with 256Mb RAM.
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January 29th, 2006 21:00
Biermaken,
How much memory does your system have? SP2 needs at least 256Mb to run decently. 512Mb minimum is preferred. SP2 is a memory hog.
Tony
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Ron
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January 30th, 2006 17:00
As Ron suggested, you should install SP2 immediately after the XP install (unless you want to install the Recovery Console) and then the chipset driver. Then your updates and drivers.
Here's your model's latest version.
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&releaseid=R58370&SystemID=INS_PNT_P4_1150&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=1134&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=1&formatcnt=1&fileid=70519
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January 31st, 2006 20:00
I've got 256MB of memory. The old HDD I had worked just fine with SP2, also.
Thanks for the info. I'll try installing SP2 before running the updates and drivers.
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January 31st, 2006 23:00
Biermaken,
Did you create the new HDD partition as FAT32 or NTFS? That's a possible cause also. I also turn off "Allow Indexing Service to index this disk for fast file searching" on XP SP2 with 256Mb RAM.
Tony
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February 1st, 2006 01:00
I just followed the directions above and everything is working perfectly. Thanks for the help. :-)
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February 1st, 2006 02:00