I agree on the hardware front with a few amendments. My order of most likely hardware cause:
-Dust -Power supply -CPU (if you overclock) -Motherboard -Hard drive -CPU (if you dont overclock) -Memory (often just requires reseat) I've seen USB devices do this, especially if you didn't have specific Win7 drivers. But even if you did, the drivers could be buggy. This might be your first step, unplug all USB devices. Probably have to keep the mouse and keyboard though :) David "If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards... checkmate!" -Zapp Brannigan, Futurama On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 15:31, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: >>Also, if the machine is hanging even during the boot process, then I doubt > any Adobe product has anything to do with it. > > I doesn't hang during boot, I saw it happen just after booting when a dos > command was the first thing I ran. > > I did overlook the hardware, and many of you have quite rightly pointed the > finger at that. I'll poke around inside the thing tonight and see if there's > anything suspicious I can remove. I recall it has two DVD burners, a > networked Brother printer and a USB Brother MFC, but not much besides that. > It's using Microsoft Security Essentials instead of the dreadful and useless > AVG that I eradicated from this place a few months ago. > > There is still some weird stuff happening the event logs that I'll look at > later as well. > > Greg > >
