Computer freezes at boot. Need help!

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Tim

Recently my system started freezing at random times.
Sometimes, in the middle of use, or sometimes at
different stages of booting, even in safe mode.

Since I didn't have alot of stuff to be saved, I just
wiped and reformatted the hdd, and reinstalled Windows
2000. It seemed to work fine for about a week. Now the
system freezes up in the middle of boot. Sometimes, I'm
able to choose to boot in safe mode, but it still freezes
in the middle of the black and white win2k graphic bar.

I can't imagine this being anything other than a hardware
problem. A friend said that it could be the power supply
is blown. Could that be the problem, or might it be
something else???

Here are my spec's:
Gateway
Original OS before I reformatted hdd: Win 2k
New OS: Win 2k
AMD athalon 1ghz
~128MB RAM
DVD
CDRW
2 HDD's
Nvidia Vanta AGP, 32mb i think...
Ethernet pci adapter
Creative sound card, also pci

I think that's enough info, let me know if I missed some
mundane detail :)

Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thx ppl,
Timmy
 
Still can't figure it out. Heat sink appears to be snug
against the cpu, and even with the cdrom drives
disconnected, it still freezes in the middle of booting.

I tried reinstalling win2k again, and it froze again in
the middle of the cdrom loading up the installation
program and its system check procedure.

Another thing: The NUM lock and CAPS lock keys sometimes
work, sometimes not...

Would this have anything to do with the latest worm going
around the net?

Computerless,
Tim
 
Recently my system started freezing at random times.
Sometimes, in the middle of use, or sometimes at
different stages of booting, even in safe mode.

...
Here are my spec's:
Gateway
Original OS before I reformatted hdd: Win 2k
New OS: Win 2k
AMD athalon 1ghz
~128MB RAM
DVD
CDRW
2 HDD's
Nvidia Vanta AGP, 32mb i think...
Ethernet pci adapter
Creative sound card, also pci
...
Click to expand...

I had similar problems after I put in an NVidia GE Force Ti 4600 into my
AMD Athlon machine.

Make sure you've updated your AMD AGP driver:

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_2336,0
0.html
-or-
http://tinyurl.com/89td

And your NVidia drivers:
http://www.nvidia.com/view.asp?IO=winxp-2k_archive
 
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