Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

Question

IE immediately crashes within new XP Pro install

Jan 15, 2013 4:57AM PST

I've resurrected an old Pentium 4 system (with 1gb ram, good video card, 80gb hdd) to give to needy grade school child. HDD was reformatted, XP Pro installed without any other programs, system running stable, however when I attempt to use IE to find video drivers, it immediately crashes....I get the IE has encountered a problem and has to close message. I installed the SP2 from MS disk, and IE crashes. Am curious what the problem is, as I know the system is good as I once had Win 7 working(though extremely slow, and Win 7 doesn't have the LAN or sound drivers for the P4S800 motherboard.) My thought was because of older version of IE but my uncles old Acer system with XP has no problem with IE.
I'd appreciate any help or suggestions. Many thanks.

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
Answer
Sounds right.
Jan 15, 2013 6:34AM PST

I've never used IE to install video drivers. I follow the maker's instructions (example to follow) and not once have they told me to use IE to install drivers.

-> http://forums.cnet.com/7726-7587_102-2699006.html

I'd go find the XP install notes for this machine.
Bob

- Collapse -
To Clarify
Jan 15, 2013 12:42PM PST

Once the XP Pro OS is installed the only browser available is IE which I was attempting to use to locate and download newer video drivers for the ATI AGP video card. I wasn't attempting to install anything using IE.
As stated before, system itself runs fine, other than IE constantly crashing. Forgot to mention before that I installed
a PCI network card to use as I don't have the LAN drivers for the motherboard any more. Guess I'll have to transfer and install from main PC the video drivers and newer version of browsers and see what happens.

- Collapse -
Then go get another browser.
Jan 15, 2013 2:19PM PST

BUT ATI AGP drivers are a torturous lot. I'll stop here because I bet you know that ATI doesn't officially support them.
Bob