Stand by, hibernate and shutting down xp locks computer up.

[phuffen]

Hi

I just did a total format of my Inspiron XPS, 1st gen, reinstalled win xp HE from the image I extracted from the "old" system.
First, my serial for win xp on the dell tag didn't work!!!!!
Then I realised when the comp. went into standby or hibernate mode - it totally locked up. I have to push the on/off button and restart it.
The computer wont either shut down poperly - it hangs when windows says its shutting down!
The only extra I have installed is the SB-card in the pcmcia port.
Anyone knows of a solution?

Thanx
Daniel

[chevyrulz099]

there is your problem right there. youre restoring an image. that image has a problem obviously, whether it be drivers, or even from a different SYStem all together.

try to install the chipset driver over again. or maybe the bios.

other than that all i can tell you is to reformat, because chances are you wont fix it without doing that anyways.

[phuffen]

Well, it's not really restoring an image. Dell has, instead of giving u cd's, put an image of windows on the system that u extract and then burn - alas u got ur windows cd without them have to pay for an extra cd.... =).
I'll try reinstalling the chipset drivers and bios again - hope that'll do the trick!

Thanx

[chevyrulz099]

if it doesnt, you may want to format it. but again, you will benefit from that anyway.

[phuffen]

Hey
Well, it worked, whoohaa!!! The reason it stopped was that I just formatted it and I won't go through that again....maybe I have to - coz' now the friggin' dell wireless card won't "start".... =( LoL
Thanx for the help!! Appreciated!