This is the computer I use for goofing off on the internet. WindozeXP SP3.
Sometimes this computer will just freeze. Whatever is on the display at
that time will continue. Mouse pointer won't move. If there's something
coming from the speakers it will stutter continuously until power is
shut off. It does this at rare random times.
I turn the speakers off and do a hard power off to reboot. The windoze
start-up sound is too loud, so I keep the speakers off any time I
reboot. The windoze volume control doesn't become active until after the
start-up wave plays.
I thought it might be a defect in the memory, but I recently replaced
the memory. I removed the existing 1GB DDR2 667 to install 2GB DDR2 800.
DDR2 667 was no longer available. When I last rebuilt this system DDR2
667 was the most expensive memory available & when I upgraded memory a
couple of weeks ago DDR2 800 was the least expensive memory.
One thing I have noticed - when I upgraded the hard-drive a year or so
ago, I got a local computer shop to clone my old drive onto the new
drive & expand the volume to fit ... which left me with a 200GB FAT32
volume. I tried converting to NTFS, but it failed.
I had some other problems and it wasn't until earlier this summer I
finally figured out how to get SP3 to install. Don't remember the whole
thing now, but one of the precursor patches wouldn't install because of
an invalid registry entry for the keyboard. Once I corrected that, the
precursor patch installed and then SP3 would install.
Once SP3 installed, the NTFS conversion worked as well.
And what I noticed is that on the old FAT32 volume it would run CHKDSK
every time it started from a hard reboot. With the NTFS volume, it
doesn't. No log file is generated. It's not a BSOD, so there's no memory
dump.
The power supply is reasonably new & I put a new, more powerful cooler
fan on the CPU the last time I replaced the power supply.
What else should I look at?
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