05-31-2004, 05:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-31-2004, 05:33 PM by Nomad25055.)
My current hardware as is follows:
MSI KM4M mobo
AMD Athlon 1600 @ 1.3ghz
ATI Radeon 7000 PRO 64mb
256mb PC2700 DDR
Realtek AC97 Audio
60gb Hard Drive (forgot what kind)
Windows XP PRO
300 watt PSU
Note that I use spybot and lannetscan on a regular basis and I run disk clean up about every week or so and that I run defrag about twice a month. I am about to do some upgrading (CPU, RAM, Video card, etc) and will not do so until I find the source of this problem first. As for what programs I am running on startup, there is nothing that is not required to run windows, and there is nothing running in the background. If I knew how to take screenshots of task manager and the like then I would. Would anybody care to help me with this? (kind of never had/wanted to do it before.) It only rarely does this but when it does it is quite frustrating. For example yesterday there were some very bad storms in the area (even had a few tornados reported to touch down very close by) and my computer absolutly refused to shut down. (kind of a bad time to be motivated to fix a currently trivial problem :unsure: ) Any and all help in this matter will be greatly appreciated.
Nomad25055 :(
EDIT: I have all the current patchs/drivers for my system and check for any new updates on a weekly basis.
MSI KM4M mobo
AMD Athlon 1600 @ 1.3ghz
ATI Radeon 7000 PRO 64mb
256mb PC2700 DDR
Realtek AC97 Audio
60gb Hard Drive (forgot what kind)
Windows XP PRO
300 watt PSU
Note that I use spybot and lannetscan on a regular basis and I run disk clean up about every week or so and that I run defrag about twice a month. I am about to do some upgrading (CPU, RAM, Video card, etc) and will not do so until I find the source of this problem first. As for what programs I am running on startup, there is nothing that is not required to run windows, and there is nothing running in the background. If I knew how to take screenshots of task manager and the like then I would. Would anybody care to help me with this? (kind of never had/wanted to do it before.) It only rarely does this but when it does it is quite frustrating. For example yesterday there were some very bad storms in the area (even had a few tornados reported to touch down very close by) and my computer absolutly refused to shut down. (kind of a bad time to be motivated to fix a currently trivial problem :unsure: ) Any and all help in this matter will be greatly appreciated.
Nomad25055 :(
EDIT: I have all the current patchs/drivers for my system and check for any new updates on a weekly basis.
R.I.P. Pete! I can't believe you're gone. 