Howdy there, im new here, found this site by "googling" windows freezing errors.. Here is my predicament:
I just got a new computer yesterday and went to setup windows on it, on a fresh hard drive. Specs are as follows:
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
1 GB Ram
ASUS K8V-X SE motherboard
256mb Nvidia Card
250 GB Hard Drive
+ I have to fresh drives, both 80 GB disks.
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I got the computer because my other one fried (literally like with smoke and everything). When i go to setup windows, it recognizes the partitions, acts normal but when it goes to copy windows files to the selected partition it freezes at random intervals. At first it was freezing @ "driver.cab" but i tried multiple reformats and then it started freezing @ other intervals, sometimes 15%, 32%, i even got it as far as 88% before it froze.
I took out a hard drive on another rig that is working fine and i got it to boot into windows XP Pro, however when it starts up it freezes (no blue screen, or anything, just sits there and you can't move the mouse or force quit). I tried re-formatting 3 different HD's, with different combinations of CD-ROMS, and 3 different OS Disks and they all freeze @ random intervals.
So now i am here asking for the help of the tech gurus to see if anyone here can help me target the problem.
I called AMD and they told me its possible the processor or the motherboard is bad. I hadn't checked the RAM, i had 2 512 DIMM chips in the motherboard during the setup, but hadn't unplugged either during setup to see if one, or both, were bad. Even if they were bad would this cause windows to freeze during the "copying files" process?
Thanks to all who read this and reply, it is appreciated ^_^
I just got a new computer yesterday and went to setup windows on it, on a fresh hard drive. Specs are as follows:
AMD Athlon 64 3400+
1 GB Ram
ASUS K8V-X SE motherboard
256mb Nvidia Card
250 GB Hard Drive
+ I have to fresh drives, both 80 GB disks.
---------------------------------------------------------------
I got the computer because my other one fried (literally like with smoke and everything). When i go to setup windows, it recognizes the partitions, acts normal but when it goes to copy windows files to the selected partition it freezes at random intervals. At first it was freezing @ "driver.cab" but i tried multiple reformats and then it started freezing @ other intervals, sometimes 15%, 32%, i even got it as far as 88% before it froze.
I took out a hard drive on another rig that is working fine and i got it to boot into windows XP Pro, however when it starts up it freezes (no blue screen, or anything, just sits there and you can't move the mouse or force quit). I tried re-formatting 3 different HD's, with different combinations of CD-ROMS, and 3 different OS Disks and they all freeze @ random intervals.
So now i am here asking for the help of the tech gurus to see if anyone here can help me target the problem.
I called AMD and they told me its possible the processor or the motherboard is bad. I hadn't checked the RAM, i had 2 512 DIMM chips in the motherboard during the setup, but hadn't unplugged either during setup to see if one, or both, were bad. Even if they were bad would this cause windows to freeze during the "copying files" process?
Thanks to all who read this and reply, it is appreciated ^_^