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Computer Freezing?

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copeland3300

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Hey guys. My friend just reformatted and installed windows xp. He up'd to sp2, and has all the latest drivers for everything, and he has the lastest bios update. I tweaked the bios in case something was weird with it and it didn't want to run anything too fast. His comptuer hard freezes literally everytime he tries to play a game. I haven't gotten a chance to really go at it too through (memtest, prime, etc.) but this just isn't right. Specs are:

Athlon XP Barton 2800+
EPox EP-8RDA3+
Radeon 9700 Pro
Maxtor 80 GB
Audigy 2
Windows XP Pro.

I'm really stumped by this problem, as i'm sure you can tell. Please help! He's leaving for college on saturday!
 
By "play game", do you mean "play online"? I've heard reports that SP2, because it enables firewall by default, tends to screw up a lot of games.

Try turning off Windows Firewall, or just open up ports for the games you want to run.
 
I had him downgrade from sp2, and at the time, I had the firewall and auto updates disabled on his computer.
 
what kind of ram? it casues lots of errors if its messed up, and it crashes games.. i know, ive expiernced :(
 
that's very true, i didn't think about that. I believe that it's corsair, but i think i will run memtest.
 
If it is just with games stick in another video card and see if it does the same thing.
 
Yeah, check things like temperatures/etc, and, most importantly, the video card. That is a huge possibility right there. You might try getting ATITool and using the find artifacts test to see if the video card is running too hotly or something.
 
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