ferdybassi@tin.it wrote:
Hi all. I have a toshiba laptop with a 60 GB HD which I have partitioned as follows:
- hda1 14 GB NTFS Windows XP - hda5 16 GB NTFS Windows XP Data - hda6 4 GB FAT32 to share files between WinXP and SUSE - hda7 400 MB Reiser /boot - hda8 16 GB Reiser / - hda9 10 GB Reiser /home
I first installed Windows XP on its primary partition, then installed SUSE 10 and set up Grub to boot both. Now SUSE 10 can boot w/out any problem, but when I boot Windows XP I get this strange behaviour: it boots, it lets me CTRL+ALT+DEL, it lets me log in with my username/password... then it loads my desktop settings and suddenly freeze. I got "busy mouse pointer" and I can't do anything. By entering Task manager it seems that the problem is caused by AVG Free antivirus (it freezes and I can't stop it) or by ConfigFree, a Toshiba tool to easily switch between different LANs. I can't even CTRL+ALT+DEL again to reboot: I just have to press shutdown button... Never happened with SUSE 9.2... Both Windows XP and SUSE 10 are fresh installations. I just updated them, without installing any other software, except AVG antivirus
My hypothesis: - AVG Free detects some change into the reisers partitions or into the MBR and it just goes crazy - SUSE 10 has some bugs into partition handling - Windows XP SP2 doesn't like that someone manages partitions after its installation
Any hints? Confirming AVG is using the CPU power first ie open Task Manager, click on the CPU usage column until the processes are sorted in descending order. Perhaps AVG is not the culprit. You could also stop any scan as Windows starts as perhaps that is what is chewing the CPU. Then I would uninstall AVG, reboot and see if the problem occurs again. That will ascertain if AVG is the culprit.
I however do not think so as I recently uninstalled Norton AV and installed AVG on my dual boot Win XP/Suse 9.3 box and I can happily boot into either and not get 'frozen'. Perhaps the AVG installation is corrupt and therefore preferably download the file again from the AVG site, install and update it and see if the problems are still there. If so, I think a complete new installation is required ie install XP, install Suse and then install AVG on Win XP. HiH -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Linux user # 229959 at http://counter.li.org Currently using SuSE 9.0 Professional with KDE 3.1 ========================================================================