Alright, I need help, I am at a loss..

[Guest]

Ok, recently..within the last week and a half..I have had to reformat my hard
drive and reinstall Windows XP Professional...due to problems with viruses
and issues I couldn't resolve any other way. I just have one problem...ok
two...I have everything installed correctly, I believe, and it should all be
running smooth...I have all updates installed, except SP2, as I am behind two
firewalls and SP2 tends to cause serious difficulites with connecting to the
internet if I have it installed.
My computer has been freezing up and acting almost like I need some kind of
driver or there might be something wrong with the registry or the actual hard
drive itself. It will run smooth for awhile, a few minutes to a couple hours,
depending on what I'm trying to do, and then it will freeze for a few seconds
to a few minutes...sometimes I have to reboot cause it won't unfreeze...right
now I have hardly any programs installed other than the basics that come with
windows and things like Adobe Acrobat and a number of anti-virus (System
Suite 5, Microsoft Anti-Spyware,Ad-Aware,Spybot Search and Destroy) and
anti-adware/spyware programs. Can anyone tell me why my computer might be
behaving this way? Should I worry about the hard drive itself or might it be
something wrong with how I re-installed windows xp pro ? Thanks in advance
for any help.

 

[Fitz]

Try going to the website of your hard drive manufacturer and see if they
have a hard drive diagnostics utility for download. Most manufacture do.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestion...I'll look into it...though I'm not quite sure it
is my hard drive that is the problem at this point...could be but I don't
know...I think I might be having some kind of hardware conflict or software
conflict or something...somehow when reinstalling windows xp pro I must've
made a mistake somehow...I'm also gonna check on the innerworkings of my comp
(tis a home built one) and make sure nothing is amiss with fans on the cpu or
anything...I'm still open for suggestions...something I did try that seemed
to work for a little while was checking the device manager for duplicate
installations of hardware..which there were a few duplicates of USB
controllers...I followed the trouble shooter duplicates of things in device
manager but after I restarted my comp to make sure all would work well after
said changes the duplicates had reappeared so I dunno...in anycase I might
have to have someone with a bigger brain than mine take a look at my comp
soon..