I would strongly suspect RAM. The first thing I would do is set the BIOS to
very conservative memory settings. If I got another lock the next thing I
would do is swap out the RAM. But if the locks stopped I would wait a week
to make sure it was OK and then I would start speeding up the settings one
at a time.

Rode
The NOSPIN Group


>Somehow I got my system to turn back on when it freezes, BUT it still freezes
>every couple of hours. There doesn't seem to be a reason for it to freeze. I
>can watch DVD's, run it through benchmarks, and everything, but then for no
>reason !BAM! the computer just locks up. At first I thought the system was
>working, so I went into the bios and turned everything from fail-safe to
>optimised and it locked up just a few minutes after going into windows. What
>would you reccomend I do to find out what is wrong? There doesn't seem to be
>anything else wrong, it runs fantastic until it suddenly freezes. Like I said
>in an earlier message, the temp isn't very high. Any help would be
>appreciated.
>Thank you.

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