When I bought computers, (I build them now), and they did not work
properly in the first thirty days, I got rid of them as quick as I could.
This assumes I did not "do" anything to them to cause them harm,
(no new hardware, or software, etc -- just "burning them in").
Sometimes the "out of the box" experience is just not what it should be.
As the prices fall and parts get cheaper this is bound to get worse.
Just a personal opinion...  Sorry if I am too negative, but I had to "ditch"
two units or be "stuck with them".
If it is too late to return it, write back to the list with any info about what
you may have added to system  -- All hardware, software, etc.
I had a friend with a new computer that worked "very" odd until he replaced
some new hardware that was added _after_ it was built.        Rick

----- Original Message -----
> At 07:54 PM 03/19/2000 , Bradley Marden wrote:
 >I bought a new computer (hp 6623) when i bought it it started out fine. But then it
 >started locking up and having invalid page faults (kernall32.dll). After talking to the
 >support center they ran me through some stuff to free up resources and that has stopped
 >it some what. They also suggested that there was a corrupt os installed so after it
 >happened a few more time a couple of days later i formatted the hd and reinstalled
 >windows with the recovery disk included with it. That had no affect though still had the
 >same problems running varrious programs. Now it is also starting to freeze when shutting
 >down the computer. I tried to install windows98 from a disk from a friends computer to
 >see if it was a corrupt os sent with it. i was unable to use it do to it didn't have all
 >the drivers required sound cards, modems, and multimedia keyboard use to control volume.
 >I am tired of having to work on something that is not even a month old. Any help would
 >be welcomed. It is a 500 mhz amd with 64 mb sdram running (or tring to run) win98.

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