computer freeze up

[Mike734]

Right click "My Computer" left click explore and the explore screen pops up and you can manage files right? Not on my computer. I have replaced the memory and now the mother board. I am recording the voltages to rule a bad power supply out but when I click on explore, the file managment screen pops up and the "flashlight" looks for files for about 1 second. Then the system freezes. I have to cntl-alt-del to end the exploring-my computer task. I am thinking hard drive next but I can load programs, play games and surf the net without problems. WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON! Er, excuse me. I have no ghost drive/devices, the latest 4 in 1 drivers, nothing running in the background, quality components and a similarly set up 750 tbird with no problems. What else could it be?

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Asus A7V266-E (bios 1004b)
XP 1600+
256 DDR
SoundBlaster Live!!!
Netgear 311 netcard
Winfast Geforce2 Ti
IBM 40 gig drive in 3 partitions.
TDK velo 24-10-40
DVD also.

 

[ACCobra427]

Sorry Mike734, I can't help you, but I have a freezing/rebooting problem too.

My Win2k rig would randomly reboot due, then from help from this forum, I turned off the 'Automatically Reboot on Error' last night. When using Photoshop last night my computer froze a few times and I had to reboot. Before, photoshop would cause reboots sometimes, but it would happen at other random times too.

Any help on why my computer freezes? Do you think installing a new OS would help? My system was fine for a year but then it started doing the reboot thing all of a sudden. Thanks

[Edit] My computer Specs:
Asus P3B-F mobo
Pentium 3 500MHz Retail, took stock case off and put bigger fan on it; used to run it at 110 MHz FSB/550MHz CPU. I don't think the freezing is an overheating issue, but maybe the CPU is getting old?
256 MB RAM
Viper 770 Ultra video card, 32MB
Tekram SCSI Card connected to Plextor 8x CD-R drive
Pioneer 6x DVD slot-load drive
Soundblaster Live! Value
Netgear NIC
Windows 2000 Service Pack 2

 

[DaiShan]

mike734, maybe a bad bios flash? have you tried reinstalling original bios? Sorry if this doesn't help, I don't have any other ideas! Maybe something network related?

ACCobra427: what are the rest of your specs? Kind of need to know that...

 

[GregANDTCH]

Hey Mike,
Try unplugging your CDRW/DVD drives
and plugging them back in One at a time.
Maybe one of them is having problems.

 

[Mike734]

Well I gave up and turned it over to the gurus at the local PC shop. Now it is their problem. HA!
I did not have any conflicts with respect to the cd drives. The rw is master and the dvd is slave which worked fine when they were part of my tbird 750rig. I had tried to flash the bios with 1005. That could be part of it but I remember the reason I did this is because I was experiencing problems. I don' know anymore. I am just going to insist that it come from the shop without any problems. I bought all the parts there after all. If They can't fix it, they will have to refund or exchange the parts until it does work.

 

[ACCobra427]

I put my computer specs into my original message above. Let me know if you need more info or have more questions! Thanks in advance for your help

 

[DaiShan]

accobra: how many watts is your psu? how old is it? what are your temps like in mbm?

 

[ACCobra427]

I have an InWin case w/ a 235 watt power supply. I once swapped it out for a 300W unit but it still would crash, so it isn't the PSU. I think my mobo temp is something like 27 deg C, but I'll have to check on that when i get home. It doesn't seem like there is an increase in temperature that leads to a crash, though.

 

[Mike734]

The guy at the shop says he fixed it. I don't believe him though. He says he just reinstalled the 4 in 1 drivers. I did that many times aftter clean installs. I will pick it up later and will try to get it to freeze before I leave the shop.