windows 7 hanging and crashing but not on xp

adio2k11 said:

I ment socket 775

No worries...I understood what you meant...Good Luck..I may even run into this problem when I take my 10 yr old Dell with XP on it and put Windows 8 on it....I'll soon see....I don't mind, as I have my HDD (Hard Drive) partitioned with XP on one, Linux on the other and will be putting Windows 8 on the other partition. This is just my Tech Support Machine. I hook up other HDD's to it and safe data and what not for people... I built a Windows 7 Gaming Machine that I have been using for the past 4-5 yrs now....I don't like to hook up other peoples HDD's to that, in case they have virus's or other malicious stuff on them. So, I'm not sure it will work either. I did the Windows 7 upgrade adviser as you did and it passed, but we'll soon see..

I did the upgrade advisor and it passed as well and good luck

adio2k11 said:

I did the upgrade advisor and it passed as well and good luck

I know, but at least it will test the theory of weather a MOBO is too old to handle it or not. I have a Dell...

This is what Speccy tells you:
Manufacturer Dell Inc.
Chipset Vendor Intel
Chipset Model i925X
Chipset Revision B1
Southbridge Vendor Intel
Southbridge Model 82801FB (ICH6)
Southbridge Revision 03

I'm also attaching what Speccy adds for your specs. it shows you everything...

adio2k11 said:

I did the upgrade advisor and it passed as well and good luck

Ok, I got 8 on a 10yr old PC...It's running fine...I really think you should contact the Motherboard Tech support....You shouldn't have this issue....

ok kool will look into it

just to let everyone know thankyou for all your help but in the end i saved the money and got a new motherboard and im now on windows 8 so thank you for your help

Great to know!!! and Thanks for posting back with your status!!!!