Computer freezes shortly after starting

[flippery]

I just bought this computer from Ibuypower.com a month and a half ago for playing games only. Haven't done all that much with it because I use my main computer still and this was just to play games.

Two or three days ago, I was playing a DVD and then I removed the DVD and then went back to my regular computer to do something else. A few hours later, I decided to turn off that computer, and I realized the mouse was frozen. So I ended up having to shut down the system to get it going again. Everytime I was able to get the computer started up again, it would last about two minutes and then freeze with the mouse again. If I was doing a virus check (which I did eventually succeed with one with new virus descriptions from Norton which indicated no viruses), it would freeze in the middle of that as well. I tried doing a disk check and it got through almost all of it before reading the 5 of 5 space check and then froze again.

I can't find anything wrong to fix. I tried looking to see if it needed new updates from Microsoft and that indicated all was fine.

Any ideas, because Ibuypower isn't exactly all that forthcoming in responding?

The computer is a AMD 2880, 1 gig ram, 130 MB Hard drive, Audigy 2 sound card, 420 Watt power supply (which seems to be my next suspicion), DVD Drive and CDR/W drive. Can't really think of anything else other than it runs XP Home. There's nothing but a few games on it, and the last interaction with a game was Raven Shield 3 asking me if I wanted to register the game, to which I said no (it's the copy that came with the sound card). Nothing is illegal on my system.

[sfw1960]

Is your CPU kooler clean??
Or is it loaded up with dust bunnies?

[pickel]

Try safe mode and see what's starting up and disable anything you recognize that you don't need to run.....????

[flippery]

The computer is practically brand new. No dust bunnies at all.

I tried running it in safe mode. Didn't even start up before it just froze. I tried running it without starting beginning programs, and it eventually froze as well. Took a little longer, but still froze.

[dafanman]

You got my vote for suspecting the psu along with the creative drivers or hardware.

I would first pull the audio card and check for stability.

Additionally have you memtested the ram, make sure its not flaky.

Is it a branded motherboard?

Can you get the specs for the psu, 12,5,and 3v rails?

[nerdos]

this probaly is the Audigy sound card.
I yanked it out of my machine and it works fine.

Is there a driver or something to make it better?
patch?

hello Creative Labs?
your products stink!