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More info?)
"Nico" <nhjorth@online.no> wrote in message
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> Mike Kirkland <no@email.here> wrote in message
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>> On 28 Sep 2004 16:54:32 -0700, nhjorth@online.no (Nico) wrote:
>>
>> >My system:
>> >SOYO Dragon Plus! mainboard
>> >amd athlon xp1800+ cpu
>> >geforce 3 ti200 video card
>> >512mb ddr RAM
>> >
>> >My screen sometimes freezes unexpectedly, mostly when I'm playing mp3
>> >or video files, and the sound loops (maybe 1 frame repeats).
>> >
>> >I've searched, but people mainly have this problem while playing video
>> >games. And I don't play video games, so I thought maybe this problem
>> >is different.
>> >
>> >Does anyone know how to help?
>> >
>> >Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Does it sometimes freeze when not doing anything? I'm not positive but
>> my first suspicion is that your power supply is in need of
>> replacement.
>
> It freezes randomly, like when browsing while listening to mp3s, or
> playing video files or doing anything ralated to media files. Last
> time it happened while editing video. It froze after 10 seconds.
>
> It doesn't freeze when doing anything, but it may freeze when it's
> playing mp3s and I'm not there.
>
> Both the GF3Ti200 fan and the CPU fan works. And the system isn't very
> hot.
>
> I tried to only work with media files stored on the system disk.. same
> problem.
>
> Both drives are in udma mode.
>
> I'm not using the drive for something else at the same time, at least
> not that I'm aware of.
>
> This is a fresh install of win XP. The problem occured about 1 hour
> after the install. It also happened on my old xp installation. But I
> can't recall having this problem with windows 98 se.
This kind of problem is very hard to pin-point. My guess would be a hardware
failure. The only suggestion is to let your PC run and replace one part at a
time and see if last longer then the previous.
CapFusion,....