A110 complete freeze

Hi,

I have my A110 with XP installed and all the usual tweaks (TinyXP with Fat32 format). It has the expected hiccups now and then, due to the SSD, but I've come across a much serious problem as of late.

Lately, it just hangs completely for no good reason. It's a total freeze with no response from the mouse or the keyboard. I get this once a day and have to do a cold shutdown. After that, It's a pain to get the system back up again, as it seems to freeze indefinitely during bootup. when I somehow get it to boot, it runs fine for a few hours before freezing again. If I shut it down properly, the next bootup is fine.

Now, I've done everything, I've formatted the drive more than once and during the installation process, I've noticed this type of behaviour. While copying an installation file to the drive, it might (or might not) completely hang. At this point, I have to do the cold shutdown and try to install everything from the start.

I'm not sure if this is related, but i have the 3309 bios and I don't remember it doing this with the original bios...


Any and every help/input for this frustrating problem is greatly appreciated!

 

BIOS is not the problem, I'm on 3309 as well.... Try installing a full version of XP Home SP3. These nLited copies brings more problems than not. Also see if your fan is working, it might be freezing due to heat. Install flashpoint as well, that will further eliminate your remaining hiccups.

 

Thank you for the tips. Will try a full XP install, but it still doesn't explain the freezes during the installation process

I'm not sure if this is related, but I think I've had loss of data with an ubuntu install. Although it never froze like with XP, after a while I was unable to boot up due to data loss, I believe.

I also eliminated the overheating possibility, as it freezes during boot up after being shut down for several hours.

I had two theories and you eliminated the bios one, so now I'm more prone to think that it's the SSD's fault. Might this be the problem?