Hi there,
I've just picked up a new HD & Gfx card ... installed XP (SP2 w/ all patches) fresh on the box, but the box crashes after logging on to SL ... most gfx visible on screen is loaded, then the whole system freezes ... I've tried several different version of the Gfx drivers (nVidia 8800GT 1GB) - original CD, current stable, current Beta, "optimized" drivers ...
I went back to the old HD, installed the stable drivers of the Gfx card, and it works fine there, so I reckon it's NOT the gfx card or drivers ...
Anyway, after that trouble, I installed SL on my notebook (which is also relatively new, so very few things that should mess up XP), and it too freezes or BSOD when logging on to SL ...
I also tried associating SL to only on of the cores, but that didn't help either ...
Any idea?
Here's a basic info on my desktop machine: P4 dual core, 3GB mem, 8800GT 1GB Gfx, XP SP2.
P.S. - 3d-heavy applications like NFS or such run flawlessly for hours ... so the system as such seems fine ...