Computer Lockup problems

[LookOutBelow]

My new computer that I built is locking up at random times. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason to the occurances... it can happen at any time. When it does, there is a regular grid of greenish dots that appear on the screen. They just overlay whatever is currently on the screen and everything freezes. I'd say the dots are about 20 or so pixels in area (they're square) and spaced about 50 pixels apart. (The next time this happens I will take a dig. pic and post it if necessary). I'm running Win2K Server with SP2 and all latest updates applied.

Here are my computer specs:

• Athlon 1800+
  EPoX 8KHA+ motherboard (with the new "U=" bios)
  PNY GF Ti200
  Intel 10/100 Networking card (some random one, can't remember model #)
  768MB of Crucial PC2100 DDR RAM

Anybody have any ideas? I was thinking this could be an IRQ/resource conflict Here is a screencap of my devices by resource (sorry for the geocities popup crap). It's been a while since I've had to mess with configuration issues, but is it normal for everything on the PCI bus (and AGP, since my gfx controller is AGP) to have the same IRQ? Could this be causing the problem? I'm just throwing out one possible idea. If so, how do I fix it?

I wonder if it's possible that this is just some random error with one of my components, meaning I will have to send it back in <sigh>.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
John

 

[r0tt3n1]

The IRQ `conflict` is actually normal with that OS. It is sharing virtual IRQ's and was designed to do such. It should not be a problem. I am thinking it may be a power supply or heat issue. Are you using any system monitoring programs? Get MotherboardMonitor5 or similar and keep an eye on temps and voltages.