PC freezing up....?

[Advid]

..... Win XP home (512ram) AMD 64 - 2.4 processor ....

I keep getting an intermittent total freeze... my screen just freezes and my
mouse does nothing... CTRL/ALT/DEL does nothing...only way is to press RESET
and do warm boot.....

I've tested for m/board /cpu /HD temperatures and AOK...

Today I put in 512meg of brand new ram to replace old and put in brand new
128 meg ATI graphics card..

... all worked well until i decided to burn a music CD -- froze up on track
3 (converting MP3 to WAV - not the actual CD burning..)

It often freezes doing CD burning but can freeze at any time....
printing/browsing/just running software..... driving me nuts......

Could it be the PSU ??? (350watt) ??? - or am I just throwing good money
after bad by replacing it.....?????

Any other ideas as to what it might be......?????

Have reinstalled WinXP - chkdsk/defrag aok... no conflicts....!!!!

 

[Ted Zieglar]

Virus or spyware.

 

[Advid]

have tried all that -100% clean (zone alarm /ad aware / AVG / spybot s&D/ MS
antispyware - all updated regularly....

 

[Guest]

Mabe the new ram is causing the problem. Not all computer ram models can work

 

[Advid]

no - it was doing this BEFORE i fitted the new ram... that's why i fitted
new ram thinking that it would solve the problem...