See, that sounds to me like a PC that's fine until you place some load on the CPU then it crashes...although there are a lot of things that can cause freezing/crashing.Infanity said:It seems to run smooth till i attempt something.
Svartmetall said:See, that sounds to me like a PC that's fine until you place some load on the CPU then it crashes...although there are a lot of things that can cause freezing/crashing.
When it freezes, do you have to turn it off with the power button on the case? And if so, can you turn it on again straight away or do you have to wait a minute or two? I'd certainly recommend checking your CPU and system temperatures in the BIOS.
Or it can be a bad sector on the HDD that causes the crash when files on there are accessed, and if that's a Windows file then you've got problems any time to try to do just about anything.
Grab your XP disk, boot off it to the recovery console and type chkdsk /r. Shouldn't lose any data but will check the HDD; it's not as thorough as a format c: /u /c but that will lose all your data.