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Basically, my computer (AMD FX-51, WD Raptor 75gig HD, two optical drives, 1G RAM, Radeon AIW 9800 video card) will hang a few minutes after it boots up. Occasionally it doesn't even get through Windows start-up befoe it hangs. Sometimes it doesn't even complete the BIOS portion. Therefore I am inclined to blame hardware. I already removed and re-installed RAM sticks and boards (video board and Fax board).Possibilities:
1) bad RAM?
2) bad power supply?
3) bad CPU cooling (fan is running, but haven't reseated it)
4) corrupted BIOS (how would I fix that???)
5) hard-drive on the fritz?
What do you think?
I've already used msconfig to prevent unecessary apps from starting, cleaned up registry (funny thing... while the registry cleaner was running, no hangs occurred!?!)
Thanks!
2006-09-01
08:20:36
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eps0mu0
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