Lupin Posted September 13, 2005 Share Posted September 13, 2005 K i got the dual boot to work perfectly. I spent a whole day in OSx making sure everything was working fine. Cept when I went to XP, if i let it idle for an extended period of time, It freezes. And I have to reboot it. Its a SATA drive and if you need any other info for this problem please just let me know Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupin Posted September 14, 2005 Author Share Posted September 14, 2005 Guess I was just wondering if anyone had the same problem or knew of anyways to fix this. That would be great if I could get some help. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-16268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 It would help to have detailed specifications if you are looking for help. I had a similar problem with a Seagate 160 GB SATA on the Asrock 775 dual mobo when I did the install. Finally had to do it over with a smaller boot partition for WinXP, scanned disk thoroughly and it then ran properly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-16279 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Groffy77 Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 Are you talking about when it freezes when it says "Windows is starting up"? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-16287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 If this is a Windows question, this is definitely not the best place to ask. It sounds like a coincidental problem, anyway. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-16293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupin Posted September 14, 2005 Author Share Posted September 14, 2005 Nope not a windows problem. This only happened after I installed MAC OSx86 with it. I have a Maxtor 300GB SATA drive. This is a loaner PC that I got while my real one is fixed. And it freezes while being used. Seems as if I do a lot of things, ie download stuff from newsgroups and watch a movie, it freezes up. Im gonna install another version of Windows on that Partition, if that doesnt work im gonna delete the OSx86 partition since there reallly is no practile application for it for me at this moment. (I am gamer mainly with my PC But I still love learning new things and playing around with OSs) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-16339 Share on other sites More sharing options...
batitombo Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 Mines is getting stuck here take a long time to get to log in Are you talking about when it freezes when it says "Windows is starting up"? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-16346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenjau Posted September 14, 2005 Share Posted September 14, 2005 same here , I bet this is not a windows xp problem , Maybe the time changes cause this problem ,Just my thought Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-16535 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 I doubt it is a time problem. I got the same thing starting up with SATA. I think it may be a partition read problem. WinXP may be trying to read the OSX partition and failing at it and taking a long time while doing it. I pushed the OSX partition all the way to the end of the hard disk (Acronis True image can do this on restore) and reduced the WinXP boot partition. I am also using GRUB (Linux) to boot, which only set one partition to active at boot up. Seemed to be better. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-16541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupin Posted September 15, 2005 Author Share Posted September 15, 2005 Well I just messed up my Windows and none of my DVD/CD drives come up so now im really elephanted but I just decided not to use OSx86 at all. I know enough about it know to be able to use a MAC and help others with simple MAC problems and that is all I really wanted to do with it. /me goes to by a MAC Mini Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-16604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
apple fanboy Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 Slightly off topic here.... My XP install doesn't hang, but the time in it is ALWAYS wrong! Any ideas? See below for computer specs... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-17179 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrunner Posted September 18, 2005 Share Posted September 18, 2005 @Lupin Keep your WXP and OSX installations small and use Acronis true image to backup so that you can restore easily without reinstallation. Grub or another OS selector may also help in setting one and only one partition active on bootup. @applefanboy This is a known problem, asked and answered many times and unfortunatedly unavoidable. Do a search and you will find that you'll just have to do a time sync on boot up in each OS. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-17231 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaS Posted September 19, 2005 Share Posted September 19, 2005 K i got the dual boot to work perfectly. I spent a whole day in OSx making sure everything was working fine. Cept when I went to XP, if i let it idle for an extended period of time, It freezes. And I have to reboot it. Its a SATA drive and if you need any other info for this problem please just let me know When you formated the partition for osx86 you didnt leave any free space,windows needs 8 mb of free space on the hard disk to boot up. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/2500-windows-freezes/#findComment-17390 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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