I had similar problems with a Dell laptop that I used to use and I never found out the cause. It started with some problems on the sound card, and issues with the fan and overheating. I think the issue was that Windows just became too fat for the machine to support. I did several re-installs, and maxed the memory, stripped everything back to basics (as far as that's possible with Windows and consistent with running something useful and secure).
It was an old machine so I gave up and bought a new machine with Win7 - life's too short. I use the old one occasionally for playing with other operating systems. It currently has Minix on, and someday I'll play about with it. B > -----Original Message----- > From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Sessoms > > 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. > [...] > > 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? -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
