System freezes up- Please help!!

[Guest]

I have a Compaq Presario, AMD64, 1.2Ghz, 512M memory, running Windows XP Pro.
For the last several months my system just freezes up- SOLID! I can't do
ANYTHING except turn off the power and restart. This problems happens in any
application, even just sitting at the desktop. I have pulled every card out
and cleaned the contacts, same with the memory, checked the power supply,
nothing seems to help. Wife is ready to throw the 'puter out. Anyone have ANY
suggestions as to what the problem might be? You can e-mail me if you'd
like... Thanks for ANY help!!

 

[C]

I have a Compaq Presario, AMD64, 1.2Ghz, 512M memory, running Windows XP Pro.
For the last several months my system just freezes up- SOLID! I can't do
ANYTHING except turn off the power and restart. This problems happens in any
application, even just sitting at the desktop. I have pulled every card out
and cleaned the contacts, same with the memory, checked the power supply,
nothing seems to help. Wife is ready to throw the 'puter out. Anyone have ANY
suggestions as to what the problem might be? You can e-mail me if you'd
like... Thanks for ANY help!!

Does your motherboard have an onboard marvell yukon ethernet.If so and
you did update windows,you will need to either roll back the
driver,reinstall the driver from MB cd.Check add and remove programs
and remove the update.This was released by windows update dated
sometime in august, the 9th,to my recollection.The ms release is bad
and lots of folk have had this prob.
Just a thought.
C.

 

[Reima]

I have had the same problem, but since yesterday it disappeared, may be the
windows auto update has fixed it.
There is a Marvell Yukon 88E8000/8003/80030 PCI Gigabit Ethernet controller
on the mainboard.
Reima.

 

[Guest]

Does your motherboard have an onboard marvell yukon ethernet.If so and
you did update windows,you will need to either roll back the
driver,reinstall the driver from MB cd.Check add and remove programs
and remove the update.This was released by windows update dated
sometime in august, the 9th,to my recollection.The ms release is bad
and lots of folk have had this prob.
Just a thought.
C.
Thanks for the reply, but no, I don't have a Marvel yukon ethernet onboard! I just d/led SP2 hoping that would fix the problem but it didn't. I'm at my wit's end with this problem!

 

[Guest]

Hmmm see Im not the only one experiencing this problem.. running an AMD with
10Gig... WinXP-pro.... Locks up solid, regardless if on internet or just
sitting idle...sometimes will go for several hours fine... next time only
last a few minutes... no rhyme or reasons yet determined or found...
locks/freezes up tight as a tick... no error messages or anything noted that
would give a clue as to what program or item may be causing it... turned
off/disabled all running programs... same result... have not downloaded the
SP2 for it yet... not sure if that would help since its mostly
internet-security issues contained in it... so Im told... Very frustrating..
and like Merlin... this PC might become a boat anchor soon if problem isnt
resolved or found.. Thanks for any suggestions or advice... ~ Cav

 

[TooManyPutters]

This just happened to me this past week. But I analyzed my problem as a
hard drive failure. I heard the metallic clicks coming from the drive.
Running defrag exaggerated the clickings. After a long discussion with
Compaq techs somewhere out in the hinterland, I finally convinced them that
it was the hard drive. They FedEx'd a new drive over night. Herein lies
the problem. Compaq's repair recovery program somehow effects every
software program installed, and only reinstalls WinXP. Luckily I saved all
my data files to a 2nd drive. So....hardware problem for me. I'm currently
running system recovery, and will have to re-install all my software. the
hard drive lasted 4 months and was a Chinese Star hard drive. They replaced
it with a Western Digital drive.