OS - Win XP Home
Well I just had my computer built for me by a friend and his brother about a month ago and I've been having some problems with opening programs. They both think it's a mobo problem. Here's the problem. When I first start my comp. everything is fine. I can do whatever, usually I go online, upload videos from my camcorder and some other stuff. Now after using my comp. for a while, when I try to click on an icon in my task bar, run a program, open WMP, etc. the hourglass will appear next to my cursor like it's suppose to but it goes away and nothing opens. I'll try to open the same thing or something else, but I get the same result. There are a few exceptions. As long as the program is running before I try to open something else , I can still use it w/ no problem. And I can open My Computer and Control Panel from the start menu, but can't open anything within Ctrl Pnl. But I can go though all the folders and drives in My Computer, unless it's a program file - it won't open. Now if I continue to use my up and running programs or let it set for some time, all the programs I tried to open will open all at once. Usually it helps to press Ctrl+Alt+Del a few times until task mgr opens, then everything else does. Also if I have task mgr. open before this little "episode" my comp. has, using Ctrl+Alt+Del is more effective. But sometimes nothing will work or take too long and I'll end up restarting my comp. manually. Anybody have a clue what's wrong. My CPU runs at ~55*C and my mobo runs at ~40*C according to ASUS PC Probe.
mobo - Asus A7V8X-X
CPU - AMD Athlon XP 2500 + 333FSB
Memory - 512MB PC2700 DDR
HD - Maxtor DiamondMax 40GB
Well I just had my computer built for me by a friend and his brother about a month ago and I've been having some problems with opening programs. They both think it's a mobo problem. Here's the problem. When I first start my comp. everything is fine. I can do whatever, usually I go online, upload videos from my camcorder and some other stuff. Now after using my comp. for a while, when I try to click on an icon in my task bar, run a program, open WMP, etc. the hourglass will appear next to my cursor like it's suppose to but it goes away and nothing opens. I'll try to open the same thing or something else, but I get the same result. There are a few exceptions. As long as the program is running before I try to open something else , I can still use it w/ no problem. And I can open My Computer and Control Panel from the start menu, but can't open anything within Ctrl Pnl. But I can go though all the folders and drives in My Computer, unless it's a program file - it won't open. Now if I continue to use my up and running programs or let it set for some time, all the programs I tried to open will open all at once. Usually it helps to press Ctrl+Alt+Del a few times until task mgr opens, then everything else does. Also if I have task mgr. open before this little "episode" my comp. has, using Ctrl+Alt+Del is more effective. But sometimes nothing will work or take too long and I'll end up restarting my comp. manually. Anybody have a clue what's wrong. My CPU runs at ~55*C and my mobo runs at ~40*C according to ASUS PC Probe.
mobo - Asus A7V8X-X
CPU - AMD Athlon XP 2500 + 333FSB
Memory - 512MB PC2700 DDR
HD - Maxtor DiamondMax 40GB
