I've got a compaq presario with windows xp home. My computer has been freezing intermittently since shortly after I bought it in december. It has an AMD 3000+ sempron processor, 512 ram, and an 120g hard drive. I've uninstalled every program and done a clean install of windows and it didn't solve the problem; I'm pretty sure it's a hardware problem, but I don't really know enough about it to be sure. When it freezes it completely locks up and requires a hard restart; it sometimes does this 5 or 6 times in a row, freezing shortly after logon, until it finally decides to work. It's more likely to freeze if I'm running any internet application, and it always ALWAYS freezes if I try to upload anything to any website, whether through the website or dreamweaver. Sometimes, it freezes randomy when no programs are running. I've done virus scans religiously with every program under the sun, I defragment on a regular basis, and I clear out my temp files. I had some problems with my wireless card (a netgear WG311T) but after downloading a patch from netgear's website most of them have been resolved, but who knows, it might still be affecting the computer... I am also generally running Norton's antivirus and firewall, but freezing happens when they're disabled too. Any ideas? Help!
-Shane
Freezing
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