Let's start in the beginning:
Back in August i built my first computer with the following components:
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon X2 3800+
X-Fi XtremeMusic
nVidia 6200 LE TC
Antec TruePower 550w
2GB Corsair XMS
and used my 160GB HDD from my old computer
Well it worked fine for about 2-3 weeks, until i started to get an odd freezing problem, in which the computer would be completeley unresponsive for 5-10 seconds. At first i ignored it, but it got worse and more frequent. Thinking it was a software problem, i reinstalled Windows XP about 3 times but it did nothing. After that i thought it must have been a hardware problem, so i got new parts which is the computer im currentley using:
ASUS Crosshair
ATI X1900XT 256MB
NEW Antec TruePower 550w
NEW 2GB Corsair XMS
NEW 320GB Seagate 7200.10
SAME AMD Athlon X2 3800+
SAME X-Fi XtremeMusic
The freezing pretty much stopped after the new parts were put in, but now ive got a different problem. in no particular order or pattern, my computer wont POST or sometimes it will pass the POST but when it gets to the Windows XP loading screen the computer will restart, which leads me to my question.
Seeing as how ive changed every part but the sound card and the CPU, does the problem reside in one of the two? (im guessing its not the sound card:happy My birthday is comming up soon, and i can get a new processor then and see if it helps, but i think i should get some other advise first.
Back in August i built my first computer with the following components:
ASUS M2N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon X2 3800+
X-Fi XtremeMusic
nVidia 6200 LE TC
Antec TruePower 550w
2GB Corsair XMS
and used my 160GB HDD from my old computer
Well it worked fine for about 2-3 weeks, until i started to get an odd freezing problem, in which the computer would be completeley unresponsive for 5-10 seconds. At first i ignored it, but it got worse and more frequent. Thinking it was a software problem, i reinstalled Windows XP about 3 times but it did nothing. After that i thought it must have been a hardware problem, so i got new parts which is the computer im currentley using:
ASUS Crosshair
ATI X1900XT 256MB
NEW Antec TruePower 550w
NEW 2GB Corsair XMS
NEW 320GB Seagate 7200.10
SAME AMD Athlon X2 3800+
SAME X-Fi XtremeMusic
The freezing pretty much stopped after the new parts were put in, but now ive got a different problem. in no particular order or pattern, my computer wont POST or sometimes it will pass the POST but when it gets to the Windows XP loading screen the computer will restart, which leads me to my question.
Seeing as how ive changed every part but the sound card and the CPU, does the problem reside in one of the two? (im guessing its not the sound card:happy My birthday is comming up soon, and i can get a new processor then and see if it helps, but i think i should get some other advise first.