freezes after lots of mtnce

[Guest]

Been working on a computer - did lots of system maintenance (scan disk,
defrag, disk cleanup, Norton and AdAware), but computer is still occasionally
freezing. Tried the Belarc site to check system components (for updating
drivers). Did try to update the chipset (an update to increase speed), but I
don't know if it took. We did not get to try any other driver updates, except
for what showed up on Windows Update. Before that, we had also reinstalled
Windows Xp and done critical updates. Any other ideas of what to check???
I'm not too sure on the chipset driver updates as to what is really
necessary. I noticed some said for advanced users/programmers. Please help.
thank-you. Also, on error checking, when it did show errors, a lot of times
it said the first allocation unit was not valid and then it truncated it.
What is this??

 

[Richard Urban]

All of your drivers MUST be Windows XP compatible. Are they?

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[Alphonse]

"Occasionally freezing" meaning that some days it does not?
Did the freezing begin before you reinstalled XP?
When you reinstalled XP, did it ask you for any drivers or did it set up all
by itself?
Does it freeze after a certain period of time or when using a particular
application?
What you seem to have is either a driver conflict (not XP certified) or a
bad memory module (if you can borrow one instead of unnecessarily buying
one?)

Have you taken a look at your Administrative Tools, Event Viewer? It might
give you a hint as to any conflicts or problems with Applications or the
System.

If you are up to it, try reinstalling XP from scratch, don't load any other
programs and let it run for a while... keep off the net since you won't have
protection... and try to use the games, play music, WordPad, whatever it
has, all running concurrently. If all is well, try installing one app at a
time, playing with the PC after each one, i.e., antivirus and run a full
system scan, and play solitaire and listen to a CD at the same time. Do the
same when installing printers or other external apparatus. Don't forget to
check your event viewer after each one.
HTH