Hi pete,

Perhaps your installation of Norton's is corrupted and causing these issues..
Uninstall Nortons
Turn on Windows SP2 firewall
Reboot
Test Windows to see if it freezes up on you

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pete Wrote:
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| i can surf the web all i want but anytime i try to play a game or do anything
| higher end my puter freezes up. i am running xp home and have plenty of ram.
| have an amd athlon 1800. thought maybe it was the video card so bought a
| new one and that didn't work either. have webroot spy sweeper so there is no
| spyware running in the backround. have norton virus scan which by the way
| won't complete a full system scan because the puter freezes up. managed to
| scan it last month so it hasn't been to long. have all the updates for
| windows and norton. the guys at geek squad couldn't even figure it out. any
| help would be greatly appreciated.
|
| pete