HELP! computer freezing!!

[Nebakanezzar]

Hey All,

I need a little assistance. I helped a friend build a new system, and now (3 months later) it is constantly freezing up, like 2 or 3 times a day. I have asked him if there is a common symptom of the freezing up, and he says it just happens when he multitasks. but it does freeze everytime he runs defrag on his new HD. Im kinda thinking its a software issue, but freezing in defrag is wierd...

there is also a possible IRQ conflict. there are no problems in device manager, but i noticed that his sound card, network card and usb share the same IRQ. he has dsl networked using this comp as the server (2 nic's) im betting he has ie5 running when he is freezing up.

anyone have any ideas?

asus a7v w/ 1g tb
win me
128 ram
ibm 20gb hd
sb 512
2 nic's

 

[Nebakanezzar]

bump

 

[BarnyardMonkey]

I'd say check the Vid drivers.
it will make it lock up everytime.specially while browsing.

and if not that,remove everything like the sound,NIC's,etc etc.
and then testing for awhile with just the Vid card in.
if all is well,try adding each peice back in one by one.
then you should be able to see whats causing the prob.


Hope this helps.



Thanks.

 

[Yzzim]

also do a thorough scandisk and see if there's anything wrong with your hard drive to see if there's anything wrong with it.

 

[Scott Newton]

After running for about 5 minutes, check the system resources (help & about in system). What does he have running in Startup (msconfig). Sounds like it might be memory related and he could have his startup loaded down with 50+ programs.

Also check the programs he's running and see if any of them have a memory leak. I think MemTurbo (freeware) will find leaks. If it doesn't, check at zdnet and search for Memory leak at their DL site.