- Oct 10, 1999
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hi all,
i have recently set up a new system for a friend of mine, which has been increasingly unstable. Applications would suddenly close (such internet explorer and icq) or the system would just freeze or reboot, a clean install for the second time has not imporved anything. At first i thought it was a power supply problem so i replaced that and also the motherboard (changed both the brand of each just to make sure it wasn't a bad batch) Memtest86+ runs over night like a treat both before and after i replaced both motherboard and power supply. I am stumped i have never had this much trouble with any system i have set up before and i have been upgrading since 386 days. *sigh*
the system currently consists of a
350w power supply Codegen
athlon Xp 2000+
1 x 512Mb pc3200 ddr sdram
msi KT6V motherboard (via kt600 chipset)
seagate 120gb Pata hard drive
128mb 9200SE video card
running win Xp pro oem sp1a (proper bought copy)
the rest of the system consists of old hardware that was in there old system which ran fine, namely a 40x cd rom, and some usb devices such as a burner, scanner, and printer and a pci 56k modem.
i am absolutely stumped... my only option is to replace the ram, cpu or hard drive and see i that changes anything.
any other ideas or things i should look for guys? any help is greatly appricated. thanks
i have recently set up a new system for a friend of mine, which has been increasingly unstable. Applications would suddenly close (such internet explorer and icq) or the system would just freeze or reboot, a clean install for the second time has not imporved anything. At first i thought it was a power supply problem so i replaced that and also the motherboard (changed both the brand of each just to make sure it wasn't a bad batch) Memtest86+ runs over night like a treat both before and after i replaced both motherboard and power supply. I am stumped i have never had this much trouble with any system i have set up before and i have been upgrading since 386 days. *sigh*
the system currently consists of a
350w power supply Codegen
athlon Xp 2000+
1 x 512Mb pc3200 ddr sdram
msi KT6V motherboard (via kt600 chipset)
seagate 120gb Pata hard drive
128mb 9200SE video card
running win Xp pro oem sp1a (proper bought copy)
the rest of the system consists of old hardware that was in there old system which ran fine, namely a 40x cd rom, and some usb devices such as a burner, scanner, and printer and a pci 56k modem.
i am absolutely stumped... my only option is to replace the ram, cpu or hard drive and see i that changes anything.
any other ideas or things i should look for guys? any help is greatly appricated. thanks