Nancy

Have you looked at HD Tune?
Try HD Tune (freeware). Download and run it and see what it turns up.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on C:\ under Drive letter
and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message.

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy to
Clipboard ) and copy into a further message.

Also do a full surface scan with HD Tune.

What operations do you do that require so much RAM memory?

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Nancy" <Nancy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E2FE24E6-4FB0-4432-95F1-50D74C965C36@microsoft.com...
> Back to the drawing board. Computer froze up again today (after four days
> without rebooting) Nothing in the logs shows errors that I can see
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> "Nancy" wrote:
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>> I have ran every scan for viruses and malware. My computer is clean. HD
>> crashed a month ago (new computer, under warranty) so new HD was
>> reformatted
>> and windows reinsalled (by HP authorized repair station) Problem
>> started
>> occuring before the old HD crashed so it does not appear to be HD
>> related.
>> repair station also ran antivirus and spyware scanners and found nothing.
>> They also checked all the hardware and found no problem. Previously
>> system
>> froze randomly every few days to few weeks. It is now occuring every 1-2
>> days. Computer was new in february 2005 and started freezing in
>> september
>> (once a day at random times and never on startup) ctrl-alt-del does
>> not
>> work when frozen - I have to power off. It reboots fine. freezing never
>> happens at restart - and does not matter what programs are running. I
>> contaced HP and did everything they suggested including checking for
>> conflicts, limiting startup programs, checking every hardware installed,
>> running scandisk and defrag (200gig HD 94% free space) I only use one
>> antivirus program and have tried different anti-spyware programs and
>> uninstalling the old ones thinking there may be a conflict (doesn't
>> matter -
>> freeze happens no matter what) I scan for viruses and spyware every day
>> (Norton - and online scans at trendmicro and pandasoft regularly) I
>> have
>> checked the security on my computer at various sites and it says my
>> computer
>> is extremely secure. Recently upgraded RAM thinking it may be a memory
>> problem (went from 512MB to 1.5gig) processor is 3.2gig I connect
>> wireless
>> on an extremely secure router (and have since july - problem did not
>> start
>> until september) None of my files are shared and intrusion detection is
>> very
>> secure. Computer freezes at random times with different programs -
>> does
>> not seem to be ryhme or reason to it. Ran eventvwr after restart and
>> does
>> not seem to show a problem. There is no conflict when I check for
>> hardware
>> conflicts. I made sure my wireless network connection is the only one
>> enabled. Techs cannot find any problem and I did everything HP online
>> support suggested. ALL of my windows (XP home) updates are installed -
>> including the optional updates. This problem continues even with the
>> newly
>> formatted new HD so I don't believe it's the HD or corrupt windows. SP2
>> if
>> that matters. When it freezes, there is no error screen or no way to get
>> to
>> the task manager - must power off to reboot.
>>
>> Here is the specs on the computer:
>>
>> HP Pavilion a820n desktop WinXP SP2 (completely updated)
>> 3.2gig processor
>> 1.5gig RAM (just upgraded from 512MB)
>> 200gig HD (94% free)
>>
>> Only hardware upgrades since new was the wireless card (linksys) and the
>> new
>> HD after the HD hardware failure (repair station installed, formatted and
>> they reinstalled the wireless software) and the 1gig RAM although
>> problems
>> started before the new HD and the RAM upgrade.
>>
>> Freezes even happen within a few hours of running scandisk / defrag and
>> knowing there is no viruses or malware (I was completely scanning
>> everything
>> when it first started freezing thinking it was viral related) I am a
>> fanatic
>> keeping viruses, adware, and spyware out (repair station says my computer
>> is
>> the cleanest they've seen)
>>
>> I am out of ideas on what could be wrong and how to fix. Every time I
>> thought I found the problem, it continues to freeze up. Never more than
>> once
>> a day (so far anyway) Minutes to a couple of days after reboot (usually
>> at
>> least several hours)