Just built my friend a budget pc. I took the maxtor 10 gigger out of his compaq to save him more money. Pc consists of Msi K7T turbo2 mobo, 384mb pc-133, xp 1700 t-bred, Radeon 9100, onboard sound, 56k micromodem, etc.. I formatted the HD which had WinMe, installed win2k using ntfs, and installed all the latest drivers, service packs, etc... After one week of running the pc, he gets a buttload of errors. nearly every startup, he gets an error with "LSASS.exe" and the pc restarts itself. When windows boots fine, task manager reports cpu usage at 100%, and only drops back to normal after ending processes "Iexplore.exe" twice, "setups.exe", and "winhelp.exe" . Occasionally, he gets errors stating something about lacking enough memory. He told me he increased the virtual memory because it was requested for some prog, but I dun think that's the cause for any of this. I'm going to check the HDD when I get my hands on it and see if that's the problem. I'm basically thinking its the drive or some windows issue. I found somewhat similar issues listed in microsoft.com and they state to have a hotfix for them to be aquired by contacting them. Well the cheapest form of contact IIRC was about $70. I really need some advice/opinions, as I'm at my wit's end. Thanks in advance.
P.S. If i've made some boneheaded oversight, plz be gentle.
P.S. If i've made some boneheaded oversight, plz be gentle.