I recently re-installed xp home edition,since them my pc keeps freezing(locking up)........i cant even move the mouse pointer all i can do is restart....i dont have to be doing anything for it to freeze,sometimes it freezes after 10 min or i get half an hour......i thought it might be the memory so i replaced it but still the same problem........ive re-installed xp 3 times,sometimes it even freezes during intallation.......im at my wits end.......can anyone help please........thanks.

AMD Athlon(tm)processor
1.20GHz 256 MB of RAM
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64
FM801 PCI Audio (WDM)

Hi there andy, welcome to PCHF

Did you restore any data from a previous installation of Windows after you had installed XP?

hi hengis

no i never restored any data.........all i did was booted from the xp disk done a clean format of the C drive installed xp and ive had the problems since then.....my computer worked fine before the re-installation so thats why i think its a software thing rather than hardware.......i may be wrong im not an expert.......there is no conflics in the device manager either.

Did you also install all up to date drivers for youre hardware , and have you updated windows after the format?

Other then that , after a format there shouldn't be any software problems left.

Lets have a look at the tempertures and voltages of youre pc , you can use this app for that:

http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Report back the readings please.

hi joe

heres what came up:

I/O properly initialized
Linked ISA BUS at $0290
Linked VIA VT82C686 SMBUS at $5000
Found nVidia TNT2 Model 64 / TNT2 Model 64 Pro
Linked nVidiaI2C0 SMBUS at $3D403E3F
Linked nVidiaI2C1 SMBUS at $3D403637
Scanning ISA BUS at $0290...
Scanning VIA SMBus at $5000...
INFO : unable to use VIA686 sensors (bad I/O BASE)
Scanning I2CNVidia SMBus at $3D403E3F...
Scanning I2CNVidia SMBus at $3D403637...
SMART Enabled for drive 0
Found Maxtor 2B020H1 (20.5GB)
End of detection
Error loading event -->
CfgVersion=01.0001
EventsVersion=01.0001
Loaded 0 events

Did it also show tempertures and voltage readings? Like on the first screenshot on this page:

http://www.almico.com/sfscreenshots.php

Can you post those?

The program was unable to get my voltages or temp........it seems like nothing is working on this computer now........it must be a hardware issue.......is there anyway to test the motherboard or processor?.....thanks