Help!!
Wait that is why I am here.
About 2 months ago my computer started to freeze up. Very random when it would do this and did not seem to matter which program I was working in. The freeze ups went from every few days to multiple times per day. I tried doing a system restore to a previous date, but it would freeze up or go though the process and then tell me that it could not restore to the date selected. I tried multiple dates. Then finally it just started freezing up after the bios and driver load. I could not get to the welcome screen, or start in safe mode. There had been no new programs loaded to cause this. I have multiple spyware programs, and scanned with all of them, so did not figure it to be a virus. I tried to reload windows XP but it would freeze during install. I changed out the battery on the mobo. Finally I installed a new hard drive, replaced the mother board, and dropped down from 4 sticks of ram to 1 stick of ram to start testing. It started right up and notified me I was missing 1 stick of ram. I added the 2nd stick. Found 1 of the 4 to be bad. Loaded windows XP and all the wonderful updates. Got everything back up and running just fine. That was about 1 month ago.
Worked great for about 2 weeks
2 weeks ago it starts freezing up again. Windows explorer does not show my slave drive (this is a new symptom), the system restore does not work etc… Sometimes it freezes on the driver load, sometimes I get to the welcome screen. It seems to get further if I leave it sit off overnight then try to work on it the next afternoon. I am out of ideas, but cannot bring myself to buy a new computer yet. The processor is the only thing that I have not changed out yet.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Thank you
Windows XP pro SP2 upgraded to SP3
2 gig ram
2.8 Intel processor
Intel mobo
