Hi,
Where do I start!!
Firstly my pc freezes during, Startup, before the post beeps, during Bios setup and while logged into windows. Its completly random, gets worse and worse everytime I manually restart the machine, sometimes it takes serveral attemps just to get to windows then it would crash anyway within a few minutes, doing something or not. It was due a format to clear everything on the hard drive so I done that and re-installed everything, fresh.
I thought it was my Hard drive so I tried another one and it still did it. I tried different RAM modules and tried various other internal hardware and it still froze. It came to my new graphics card, a Geforce 6200 256mb AGP. I took it out and put in my old previous graphics card, a Riva TNT2. Everything was fine! it didnt freeze! So I presume its something to do with my new graphics card. Well, I say "NEW" graphics card, the Geforce has actually been in my machine for a couple of months and its worked fine.
I cant be 100% sure but it started freezing when I installed XP Service pck 2. Or maybe it never crashed within the first 2 months because I wasnt using my pc as much as I started to do. These are the only two ideas I can come up with. Below is my system spec.
AMD Athlon XP 2200 1.7mhz
120gb HDD
512md DDR
DVD RW
CDRW
Motherboard is a K266b Via KT-266a/VT-8233a chipset
400watt ATX PSU
Average system temp - 47degress
Graphics card (Geforce) average temp - 49degress - Nvidia have automatically set the limit to 145degress.
I also have an extra internal fan
Windows XP Professional SP2
Thanks!
Where do I start!!
Firstly my pc freezes during, Startup, before the post beeps, during Bios setup and while logged into windows. Its completly random, gets worse and worse everytime I manually restart the machine, sometimes it takes serveral attemps just to get to windows then it would crash anyway within a few minutes, doing something or not. It was due a format to clear everything on the hard drive so I done that and re-installed everything, fresh.
I thought it was my Hard drive so I tried another one and it still did it. I tried different RAM modules and tried various other internal hardware and it still froze. It came to my new graphics card, a Geforce 6200 256mb AGP. I took it out and put in my old previous graphics card, a Riva TNT2. Everything was fine! it didnt freeze! So I presume its something to do with my new graphics card. Well, I say "NEW" graphics card, the Geforce has actually been in my machine for a couple of months and its worked fine.
I cant be 100% sure but it started freezing when I installed XP Service pck 2. Or maybe it never crashed within the first 2 months because I wasnt using my pc as much as I started to do. These are the only two ideas I can come up with. Below is my system spec.
AMD Athlon XP 2200 1.7mhz
120gb HDD
512md DDR
DVD RW
CDRW
Motherboard is a K266b Via KT-266a/VT-8233a chipset
400watt ATX PSU
Average system temp - 47degress
Graphics card (Geforce) average temp - 49degress - Nvidia have automatically set the limit to 145degress.
I also have an extra internal fan
Windows XP Professional SP2
Thanks!