XP Locking Up

[Nebor]

If I leave my computer for several minutes, it just locks up... Totally. It's fine as long as I'm using it, but if I walk away and come back, it's frozen and I need to restart. Specs in signature.

 

[silent tone]

Are there any errors in the event log?
Is any of your hardware set to power down at idle periods?
Do you have some screwy screensaver?
Anti-virus set to scan after idle period?
Are you using ACPI?

 

[Nebor]

My computer locked up 2 times while I was trying to reply to this, both requiring a reboot.

I have no power management stuff enabled.

I have the default windows XP screen saver.

I don't have an anti-virus program running.

I believe I'm using ACPI.

There are no errors at the time of the lockups in the event log.

 

[Nebor]

It seems to be locking up nonstop, sometimes it doesn't even finish loading my startup programs..

 

[Nebor]

Argh, no ideas from anyone?

 

[EeyoreX]

This sounds like a hardware problem, not like a Windows XP problem. Try getting and running memtest86 and have it check your RAM for errors. Alternately, if you have two or more sticks of RAM take one out, see if you get errors, than try the same thing with the other stick. However, I still prefer to test with memtest, just to be sure. It looks like you have fairly new RAM, but RAM can go bad quickly and without warning. Since it's Corsair, and if it is bad, you are in luck. They are great when dealing with RMAs. After you do this, please let us know if this solves your problem.

\Dan