freeze ups whats wrong?

[thePh@r@oh]

ok tonight hasnt been my night ive had to hit threset button like 4 times in the last 20mins or so. i keep freezing up im assumming its my ram right? im running win2k on 256 pc133 SDRAM what do you think i can do?

[eagle1]

It could be also your Power Supply Unit or Cpu and system temperature.!

[thePh@r@oh]

system temps are good and chilly psu is a brand new 400 watt.

[soulja]

how much programs u running in the backround?

[thePh@r@oh]

everything "looks" ok now i was having a hard time installing a sound card i couldnt get it to work took it out reenabled the onbaord sound and it hasnt froze in the last 20 mins or so. it was freezing every few minutes.

[jmebonner]

If it keeps up, I'd run a virus check and spyware check as my next step.

[thePh@r@oh]

spoke too soon just did it again....gonna run virus check and spyware then im gonna try switching HSF and see what happens

[TOAD6147]

When you said you "took it out" did you mean physically remove it from you computer?

[thePh@r@oh]

yep physically took it out it was a PCI card and i uninstalled the drivers and Installed the ONboard drivers and enabled the onboard sound just ran adaware AVG and spybot had some hits after i did an update to spybot ran it again and had some more hits so far been up 35mins and no freeze.

[thePh@r@oh]

i know it lasted at least an hour but i got up this morning and it was froze in the middle of a molecule it was crunching so i know its still doing it but not near as often i figured its a cooling thing so i flipped the fan on the side over and its blowing inside the case now i'll see how that goes