Windows XP (SP2) Crashing

[Gregg Collins]

Hi all,

I've just a bought new hard drive & installed a brand new copy of Windows XP
SP2 onto it. Oh what a joy XP is! NOT!

It appears to be totally and utterly unstable, well if you plan on using
your PC anyway. Like I said it is a brand new drive and as a result there
is hardly anything installed on it. I've got Norton Internet Security 2002,
ntlworld broadband, Adobe Acrobat, Mailwasher and some ATI bits on there &
that's it. Not a lot I think you'll agree.

Now if I try to install a game onto it, it runs fine for about 5-10 minutes
and then freezes up. I have to reset the PC manually to get it going again.
Also when I go online to check Windows Update, that even causes it to crash.
This time though it freezes and the monitor goes into standby mode. Again I
have to manually restart the PC.

It seems that if I try to do anything on the PC it just ends up crashing,
which is getting on my tits to say the least! So if anyone has any ideas of
how I can try and fix this thing then I would be very gratefull to hear
them.

Thanks in advance,

Gregg.

My PC spec. is as follows;
Celeron 600Mhz
256Mb RAM
120Gb Hard Drive
Radeon 9200 SE 128Mb Graphics Card
Windows XP (SP2)

 

[Guest]

Try going to run,type:cmd In cmd type:Sfc /Scannow Install the xp cd
when the graph starts,exit the info page.When its thru,type:CHKDSK C: /F
Agree to restart,then type:EXIT Restart computer,remove xp cd.

 

[Gregg Collins]

Thanks for the reply Andrew,

I've done what you've suggested so I'll just have to wait & see if it has
done the trick. I'll post if it it freezes again.

Thanks again,

Gregg.