Stops responding

[Thomas]

After I have left the computer running awhile, I will
come back and find that the screen saver has frozen. Then
I will jog the mouse and the screen saver goes away and
the windows screen will be there. No matter which program
I try to use next, I will click on it, and the program
title will stay opaque and computer will not respond. At
that point I have to power the computer off. I can't do
control-alt-delete or anything. I tried different screen
savers (including XP), but always the same thing. It
also happens during surfing using Internet Explorer. I
know it's not memory (750 meg), harddrive (75gig), or
speed of chip AthlonXP 1.5, and have new motherboard.
Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Rich Barry]

Were you having the problem before you replaced the motherboard? Did you do
a clean install of WinXP after the mb was
changed? What wattage is your Power Supply?
"Thomas" > wrote in message
...
> After I have left the computer running awhile, I will
> come back and find that the screen saver has frozen. Then
> I will jog the mouse and the screen saver goes away and
> the windows screen will be there. No matter which program
> I try to use next, I will click on it, and the program
> title will stay opaque and computer will not respond. At
> that point I have to power the computer off. I can't do
> control-alt-delete or anything. I tried different screen
> savers (including XP), but always the same thing. It
> also happens during surfing using Internet Explorer. I
> know it's not memory (750 meg), harddrive (75gig), or
> speed of chip AthlonXP 1.5, and have new motherboard.
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Thomas]

>-----Original Message-----
>Were you having the problem before you replaced the
motherboard? Did you do
>a clean install of WinXP after the mb was
>changed? What wattage is your Power Supply?
>"Thomas" > wrote in message
...
>> After I have left the computer running awhile, I will
>> come back and find that the screen saver has frozen.
Then
>> I will jog the mouse and the screen saver goes away and
>> the windows screen will be there. No matter which
program
>> I try to use next, I will click on it, and the program
>> title will stay opaque and computer will not respond.
At
>> that point I have to power the computer off. I can't
do
>> control-alt-delete or anything. I tried different
screen
>> savers (including XP), but always the same thing. It
>> also happens during surfing using Internet Explorer. I
>> know it's not memory (750 meg), harddrive (75gig), or
>> speed of chip AthlonXP 1.5, and have new motherboard.
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>
>.Thanks for the reply Rich. I installed XP recently, the
MB, and RAM were already there. It worked fine for about
a week, then this problem. No hardware has been added
since the XP install. My power supply is ATX 300 watts.
>

[Rich Barry]

Thomas, Try a different Graphics Driver.
"Thomas" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Were you having the problem before you replaced the
> motherboard? Did you do
> >a clean install of WinXP after the mb was
> >changed? What wattage is your Power Supply?
> >"Thomas" > wrote in message
> ...
> >> After I have left the computer running awhile, I will
> >> come back and find that the screen saver has frozen.
> Then
> >> I will jog the mouse and the screen saver goes away and
> >> the windows screen will be there. No matter which
> program
> >> I try to use next, I will click on it, and the program
> >> title will stay opaque and computer will not respond.
> At
> >> that point I have to power the computer off. I can't
> do
> >> control-alt-delete or anything. I tried different
> screen
> >> savers (including XP), but always the same thing. It
> >> also happens during surfing using Internet Explorer. I
> >> know it's not memory (750 meg), harddrive (75gig), or
> >> speed of chip AthlonXP 1.5, and have new motherboard.
> >> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> >
> >.Thanks for the reply Rich. I installed XP recently, the
> MB, and RAM were already there. It worked fine for about
> a week, then this problem. No hardware has been added
> since the XP install. My power supply is ATX 300 watts.
> >

[Thomas]

>-----Original Message-----
> Thomas, Try a different Graphics Driver.
>"Thomas" > wrote in message
...
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Were you having the problem before you replaced the
>> motherboard? Did you do
>> >a clean install of WinXP after the mb was
>> >changed? What wattage is your Power Supply?
>> >"Thomas" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> >> After I have left the computer running awhile, I
will
>> >> come back and find that the screen saver has frozen.
>> Then
>> >> I will jog the mouse and the screen saver goes away
and
>> >> the windows screen will be there. No matter which
>> program
>> >> I try to use next, I will click on it, and the
program
>> >> title will stay opaque and computer will not
respond.
>> At
>> >> that point I have to power the computer off. I
can't
>> do
>> >> control-alt-delete or anything. I tried different
>> screen
>> >> savers (including XP), but always the same thing.
It
>> >> also happens during surfing using Internet
Explorer. I
>> >> know it's not memory (750 meg), harddrive (75gig),
or
>> >> speed of chip AthlonXP 1.5, and have new
motherboard.
>> >> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>> >
>> >
>> >.Thanks for the reply Rich. I installed XP recently,
the
>> MB, and RAM were already there. It worked fine for
about
>> a week, then this problem. No hardware has been added
>> since the XP install. My power supply is ATX 300
watts.
>> >
>
>
>.Thanks, I will give that a try.
>