Computer freezes after a few minutes

[Sergio]

Every time I start my new computer up, it will freeze after a few minutes.  Sometimes it takes longer than others.  It took a bunch of tries until I got lucky enough for the Windows XP installation to finish.  But having Windows set up does no good if it'll freeze after a few minutes anyway.  Does anybody know what can cause this and how I can get it fixed?

The computer was bought off eBay.  I've been emailing them, but they haven't responded with a solution.

[merlin_2]

more info.........on system specs....make model help as well.......hanging/freezing........does it beep on start-up.....display a blue screen with writing on?

[Sergio]

Everything works properly until it freezes.  It boots up fine, and there's no blue screen, it just freezes.  There's always this loud buzzing sound coming from the fan though.. could that be the problem?

Foxconn P4 800FSB Motherboard
Intel Celeron 2.8 CPU & Fan
512 3200 DDR RAM 184 pin
3D Sis 128 MB Real 256E video graphics accelerator

tell me if there's anything else you want to know.

[dl65]

Gus13....Is this pc "New" or just new to you.

Did it come with the operating system installed or did you install XP ?

Did you check to see if the "buzzing noise" was being caused by a wire perhaps hitting the fan ....

let us know

dl65