You have a hardware problem - most likely an over heating condition. Make
sure the CPU heat sink is seated/mounted correctly. Make sure the CPU
cooling fan in spinning at a good rate.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)


"PeterM" wrote in message
...
I never had such bad luck in my life. My co-workers computer will freeze
every time I turn on the damn computer. In safe mode, when I'm in the BIOS
setup. When I want to check for viruses. It took me 20 tries just to get
lucky to start it. Now it starts, but it freezes when I try to run
anything. I checked the power supply, with one of those gadgets, it is
working. The computer has WIN XP Home. I undeleted about 10 demo games,
that were on the machine, (my friends kids installs everything) ran Spybot,
it had 50 items, but so far, I was unable to run a Virus Checker, it
freezes on me. Is there a program that I can buy to be able to boot into
this computer, so it can check what may be wrong with this darn machine. Is
there a floppy version of a virus checker, that works from a WIN 98 startup
disk. My friend will also give me the original WIN XP CD tomorrow. Anyway,
the machine is a not too old HP P4. I also have to wait 5 minutes to be
able to turn the machine on again. Probably a safety item, but a pain in
the back, if you ask me. Any help is appreciated. I went on Google, and
looked for any help, the only thing I get is places that wants to send
pop-up's ..............Peter