Computer Freezing

Windows Hardware 9627 This topic was started by Lacychels, 2004-06-08 02:01

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2004-06-08 04:01

In January I purchased a Systemax computer with an AMD Athalon processor, Windows XP Home, MS Office 2003 Professional. Since turning on the computer I have had constant problems with it freezing. Sometimes it evens reboots itself - the screen goes black and then it boots. When it reboots, most often a message appears saying the system has recovered from a "serious error". When it merely freezes and I have to manually reboot, it usually does a disk/file scan.
Anyway, I have talked with Systemax tech service, but they are blaming it on a software problem. However, I don't have much extra software installed and it is nothing that wasn't on my old computer which did not act this way.
Any suggestions on what might be causing the computer to freeze/reboot at random and any solutions to the problem?

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Lotus

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#127087

2004-06-08 16:14

Did the computer come with software/os installed? Or did you get it and install stuff yourself? Also what extra hardware do you have in it or hooked up to it?

Need to get a little more info.

- Lotus

Diabolus

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#127088

2004-06-08 20:06

My guess is a bad memory chip.

Don't buy Systemax systems again, they suck

If you want simple and good tech support, just get a Dell or something like that -- easy and they aren't afraid of sending you replacement parts.

Lacychels

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#127089

2004-06-10 05:34

Lotus - Because I didn't want all the extraneous garbage, I had it built to my specs. Here are the system specs for my "Tiger XP2600 System" - built by Systemax.

Mid-Tower ATX Chassis w/300W PS nForce2 Motherboard
AMD Athlon XP2600+ 333FSB Processor
512MB DDR333 PC2700 Non-ECC Memory
160GB Ultra ATA (7200rpm) Hard Drive
Geforce 4 MX440-T8X 64MB AGP Card w/ TV-Out
52X32X52/16X Combo Drive
4X DVD-/+ R/RW Drive
56K V.92 PCI Modem
Logitech iTouch Keyboard
Systemax Mouse
Windows XP Home Edition
MS Office Professional 2003
Adobe Acrobat Reader

I installed the following (note: as mentioned in my initial posting, these were installed on my old Hewlitt-Packard system and caused no problems):

Norton AntiVirus
FinePx Viewer (for Fuji digital camera)
Lexmark Z32-Z22 Color Printer
Enter.net - ISP - w/ "Propel Accelerator"

Because of the continuing problems, I have purposely kept my computer as "clean" as possible.

Lotus

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#127090

2004-06-10 16:10

Do you by any chance have the "fast write" option enabled for your video card? That option tends to make some systems very unstable. Aside from that, Alec's post above will lead you in the right direction. Keep us updated on your progress.