Most of MS's testing is on Single CPU machines. You may have found a new issue. Certainly one I haven't seen or heard of.
Good luck with that.
Bob
PS. A few seem to think these OSes and applications are bug free. Not many, but a few.
I have been dealing with a major PC problem for the last few weeks: Whenever cold-booting the computer (as opposed to restarting) after being off for more than a few hours, I was getting massive errors with the hard drive, which would either BSOD or freeze the system. The event logs would list ATAPI errors saying "Device\Ide\HD\0" wouldn't access, etc. When this happened, you could physically hear the hard drive whirring on and off repeatedly before the crash.
Whenever this happened, the restart after the crash would sometimes cause CheckDisk to start, but once XP came back up, nothing was wrong. No crashes, no problems, nothing.
Over the past few weeks I've been trying to isolate the problem, and nothing's worked: I've replaced both my hard drives and their IDE cables, thinking at first the drive was failing. I then removed both CD-drives, and tried doing clean XP installs without the sound cards installed. MemTest86 shows no errors at all with my RAM.
This morning, I turned on my computer after waking up, expecting the familiar screaming-hard-drive noises. That didn't happen... UNTIL I clicked the quicklaunch for Outlook 2003, which started the crash cycle as soon as it launched.
My event logs show no errors save for that pesky DCOM error with netman.dll and the Norton services that everyone seems to get and can't stop. I really don't think that has to do with my problem.
I know that this happens when I start Outlook 2003. I know it also only happens the first time I start it when powering on the computer from a power-off state for at least a few hours. So I feel like it's a COMBINATION of a hardware and a software problem. I just have no idea what is going on.
Is Outlook activating a flaw in a failing piece of hardware? Are my IDE ports just busted? Does the DCOM error have anything to do with it? Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Thanks in advance for any help; this is driving me crazy!
System stats:
Tyan Tiger MPX 2466 w/ ver 1.06 BIOS
2 sticks of 512MB DDR SDRAM
2 Athlop MP 2400 processors
Onboard LAN ethernet
SB Audigy 2
Nvidia GeForce MX 440
2 HDs, one 80 GB, one 40GB, both 7200 RPM/8mb
Cendyne CD-RW drive
Toshiba 16x DVD-ROM drive
Iomega ZIP 100MB internal
Floppy drive
Running Windows XP Professional, problems are identical with both SP1 and SP2 installed

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