Help with Xp freeze-up, please!

[Codshort]

Hello all, I am having trouble with my XP home
occasionally locking up (cursor & windows freeze). The
problem I'm having is this is occuring at no specified
time, or associated with any specific program. It appears
to be completely random, whether I'm using various CPU
intense programs or it's just idle. I thought XP wasn't
supposed to freeze. Anyone else experiencing this or have
any ideas I can try to solve this? I've tried updating
drivers, updating software, etc, to no avail. Any
assistance or advice would be greatly appreciated.

System:

1.2ghz AMD Thunderbird
Abit KT7a motherboard
512mb pc133 ram
ati radeon 64mb ddr vivo
Soundblaster Live Platinum
Sony 32x CD-RW
US robotics v90 modem
Microsoft Internet Keyboard
Microsoft Optical Trackball Mouse

 

[tom]

Try going to control panel,performance and
mataince,administrative tools.then click on event viewer,
then double click on system. it will tell you what is
causing the problems.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Hello all, I am having trouble with my XP home
occasionally locking up (cursor & windows freeze). The
problem I'm having is this is occuring at no specified
time, or associated with any specific program. It appears
to be completely random, whether I'm using various CPU
intense programs or it's just idle. I thought XP wasn't
supposed to freeze. Anyone else experiencing this or have
any ideas I can try to solve this? I've tried updating
drivers, updating software, etc, to no avail. Any
assistance or advice would be greatly appreciated.

If you have the via chipset program, I saw a flurry on a
website that the new patches/ included patches cause via
based motherboards to freeze. VIA has a patch on their
website that cleans most of that problem up - it's zipped
download supposed to go into the drivers file, which I
think is in the wnnt winsystem folder.

and when i get my question answered, maybe there will be
more info