Computer Locks up

[Mr. Wilson]

I have Windows XP home edition and it keeps locking up! I
have followed every direction and help while installing
XP fresh on a new hard drive. I have a 1.4 Ghz AMD athlon
processor and 256 MB of Kingston RAM and i have found and
fresh installed every necessary Driver for all my
hardware. And it just always locks up. Any suggestions.
(i have taken the suggestion of reformatting and starting
over with a new box of Windows XP and that did not help)
Thank you,
Mr. Wilson

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Be sure you have all the latest drivers for your hardware especially your
graphics card, soundcard and any peripherals attached to the system. Do not
use Windows Update for this, go to the device manufacturer's web site. When
installing updated drivers if any, Ignore any warnings about drivers being
unsigned by Microsoft, this is not the source of your issue.

Open Control Panel, open Administrative Tools, open Event Viewer, look for
errors that correspond to when the lockups happen, double click the errors,
the information contained within my give a clue as to the source of the
issue.

Place the XP CD in the drive, when the setup screen appears, select "Check
System Compatibility," the report it generates may give a clue as to the
source of the issue.

Other possible factors. If your graphics card is sharing memory with main
system memory instead of having its own onboard memory, this could cause the
type of problem you mention. Another facter is heat, will this often causes
the system to spontaneously reboot, it might cause the system to lockup.
Generally, the issue as you describe it is hardware related.

--
Michael Solomon MS-MVP
Windows Shell/User
Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/

"Mr. Wilson" > wrote in message
...
> I have Windows XP home edition and it keeps locking up! I
> have followed every direction and help while installing
> XP fresh on a new hard drive. I have a 1.4 Ghz AMD athlon
> processor and 256 MB of Kingston RAM and i have found and
> fresh installed every necessary Driver for all my
> hardware. And it just always locks up. Any suggestions.
> (i have taken the suggestion of reformatting and starting
> over with a new box of Windows XP and that did not help)
> Thank you,
> Mr. Wilson

[Millard]

>-----Original Message-----
>Be sure you have all the latest drivers for your
hardware especially your
>graphics card, soundcard and any peripherals attached to
the system. Do not
>use Windows Update for this, go to the device
manufacturer's web site. When
>installing updated drivers if any, Ignore any warnings
about drivers being
>unsigned by Microsoft, this is not the source of your
issue.
>
>Open Control Panel, open Administrative Tools, open
Event Viewer, look for
>errors that correspond to when the lockups happen,
double click the errors,
>the information contained within my give a clue as to
the source of the
>issue.
>
>Place the XP CD in the drive, when the setup screen
appears, select "Check
>System Compatibility," the report it generates may give
a clue as to the
>source of the issue.
>
>Other possible factors. If your graphics card is
sharing memory with main
>system memory instead of having its own onboard memory,
this could cause the
>type of problem you mention. Another facter is heat,
will this often causes
>the system to spontaneously reboot, it might cause the
system to lockup.
>Generally, the issue as you describe it is hardware
related.
>
>--
>Michael Solomon MS-MVP
>Windows Shell/User
>Backup is a PC User's Best Friend
>DTS-L.Org: http://www.dts-l.org/
>
>"Mr. Wilson" > wrote in message
...
>> I have Windows XP home edition and it keeps locking
up! I
>> have followed every direction and help while installing
>> XP fresh on a new hard drive. I have a 1.4 Ghz AMD
athlon
>> processor and 256 MB of Kingston RAM and i have found
and
>> fresh installed every necessary Driver for all my
>> hardware. And it just always locks up. Any suggestions.
>> (i have taken the suggestion of reformatting and
starting
>> over with a new box of Windows XP and that did not
help)
>> Thank you,
>> Mr. Wilson
>
>
>.
> Configuration errors as stated before might be the
problem however, so many programs today are memory hungry
and 256-Mb is the bare minimum. 512-Mb is the standard
now and many of the new computers on the market have
onboard everything. What they don't tell you is, this
type of configuration has to share the minimum amount of
RAM. Is cheaper to make them this way. Checking your BIOS
setup for PCI ADDRESSING may uncover port conflicts also.