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What could be causing these lockups?

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Tygur

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My system has been locking up once in a while, usually only if I get up and leave it for several hours. But it can do it while I'm still siting there, though it's rare.

Basically, the entire system would freeze. I wouldn't even be able to move the mouse. And the hard drive light would just be on. Not blinking. Not off. Just on, like the power led. Once I press the reset button, it just restarts just fine, like nothing happened.

The most recent hardware changes were a new processor (Athlon XP Thoroughbred 2600+) and a new hard drive (120GB Seagate). Windows XP was also recently reinstalled.

So..any ideas on what I should be blaming?
 
Are you running the chip at stock speeds/settings? If not then run the chip at stock settings and see if the machine still locks up while priming. Hell run prime95 now and see how fast it locks up or gives errors then start raising the voltage. I get random reboots if I run my machine in the sig at the current settings but with lower voltage to the cpu.
 
For once, I'm actually not overclocking the processor, but only because I can't with this motherboard without pushing the fsb past 166 and raising agp/pci bus speeds (the mobo isn't very new). I'm running Prime95 right now to see what happens.
 
I decided to mess around with my BIOS settings, and I ended up disabling "IDE Prefetch Mode", because it just looked like it might work. I don't really know what I just disabled, but after disabling that and leaving my computer on overnight, all seems well.

So it looks like my problem is finally solved.
 
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