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It doesn't seem to matter: Outlook, IE, Mozilla, task manager; They have
begun to freeze up more and more each day. i wind up booting up two or three
times a day.
i have 160gig hd (30% used) with 1 gig ram, run XP home. I run two spam
programs, one antivirus(avast) and Zone Alarm firewall pro.

Any ideas beside can the system and buy a new one(it is 3 years old)
 
Hi

Please have a look in the Event Viewer for any 'Errors'. If any are found,
could you please post the EventID and Source?

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I don't think the age of your pc matters just looking at this. My better
half(my wife)has a new laptop this year and it does the same thing. She has
been told that it possibly is a bad hard drive. Her updates are current(she
has xpsp2)and all updates as of today(22Aug06). One thing I do notice on it,
and it may be in your case, when she runs this on my broadband, it doesn't
lock up. When she is on a dial-up server, it does it all the time. You might
have a go at PC Pitstop and have a systems check done on your computer. Its
free, and it shows you at the end what improvements you need to make. I have
used it and it does let you know what things to do to help a faulty pc. If
you have a hour or so, log on to it and see what it recommends. You never
said if you do disk cleanups or defrags on a routine basis, and also do some
scandisk checks to try to find and repair disk errors, full checks if
possible. Also try to remove any programs that you don't use on a regular
basis. Just make sure they aren't connected to your Windows programs.
You should also try to only use one firewall on your pc. Windows has one
installed on your operating system. If you have another one by your antivirus
program, you need to make sure you use only one or the other. Not both. You
paid good money for the Zone Alarm Pro, so you probably want to disable the
windows version, go to control panel and locate it and disable the windows
firewall. As long as you have a good anti virus program and one firewall this
should be sufficient. If you use two or more firewalls they kind of get upset
and fight each other for business so to speak. I have only one, with my
McAfee anti virus and I have no problems. Nortons is a good one too. I am not
familiar with avast. Sounds generic, or something you downloaded off the
internet. Give some of these suggestions a try. You have far more RAM and
larger hard drive than I have. But you maybe into gaming more than me. Make
sure you have XP service pack 2 installed. Make sure your IE is up to date,
meaning IE6 or higher. Lastly make sure you keep up with all of Microsoft
Updates. One missing update can create all sorts of problems down the line.If
it is just a hard drive malfunction, it will cost you a lot less than buying
a new system. Just you will have to spend time reloading programs. Hard
drives act up all the time. Just give yourself some time to check these items
first. If this information helps then it was worth it to you. Have fun.
 
What and where is the Event Viewer?

Will Denny said:
Hi

Please have a look in the Event Viewer for any 'Errors'. If any are found,
could you please post the EventID and Source?

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Click to expand...
 
Hi

From Start>Run type

eventvwr.msc

then click on the icons in the left hand pane.

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fkosmakos said:
It doesn't seem to matter: Outlook, IE, Mozilla, task manager; They have
begun to freeze up more and more each day. i wind up booting up two or three
times a day.
i have 160gig hd (30% used) with 1 gig ram, run XP home. I run two spam
programs, one antivirus(avast) and Zone Alarm firewall pro.

Any ideas beside can the system and buy a new one(it is 3 years old)
Click to expand...

Have a similar issue in XPsp2+ AMD based system. All
updates installed. When auto updates are on computer
freezes/crashes/stops. Then restarts. Event viewer shows an
unnamed driver it isn't able to access). After numerous
support ticket, Microsoft "gave up". Poked around a little
more, a was able to obtain a hardware conflict at the IRQ
level. Display card and Network controller. When the comm
quits, the system will reboot with same IRQ allocated for
the cards in question. To further aggravate the problem, PnP
marked my cards as "legacy", thus blocking edit of card
properties in the resources area.

Can you imagine what it's like not to be able to use any
startup comm related tasks?
 
Under Applications I received
EVENT SOURCE
1001 Application Error
1000 Application Error
2001 Microsoft Office 11
Under System
20 Windows Update Agent
7000 Service Control Center
70009 and 7011 Service Control Center
10010 DCOM
Under Anti-Virus
90 avast!
 
Hi

I'm surprised about the Office entry. You may to check the Office gurus:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.office.misc or
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

The same for the Windows Update problem:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsupdate or
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

The other errors may very well sort themselves out then.

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fkosmakos said:
It doesn't seem to matter: Outlook, IE, Mozilla, task manager; They have
begun to freeze up more and more each day. i wind up booting up two or three
times a day.
i have 160gig hd (30% used) with 1 gig ram, run XP home. I run two spam
programs, one antivirus(avast) and Zone Alarm firewall pro.

Any ideas beside can the system and buy a new one(it is 3 years old)

ok i have put a new mercury sound card in only a cheap one and ever since ive been having random hang up s and reboots of my system ive looked in the event viewer and there were like 2000+ events the only 2 i could find at the times of reboot were
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UsbdpFp and yukonwxp

these 2 events occur i have the reboot can anyone tell me the precise cause
and is it a usb device ie my saitek joystick which is wireless and so is my
mouse and keyboard or is it the mercury sound card ive put in as im sure it
rebooted before a couple of times recently before i put the new sound card in
any help would be appreciated
 
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