Computer hangs?

[kvaruni]

So, my computer hangs quite regulary, after I installed my Athlon XP 1800+ yesterday. I can't seem to find the problem (temperature is fine, 30-50°C).
All the components are high quality. It's an Abit KG7 motherboard, with 256Mb Apacer DDram, a Geforce4Ti4200, A SB Awe64, a 3Com network card, a Maxtor 7200rpm 20Gb, a Creative 52x Cd-Rom and a 3-years old case from Aopen (with a 235W power supply) (oh, and a volcano 7 power supply)

What could be the problem of these hangs? Under Win2000, I can start the PC and then it hangs, under XP, it hangs when I start a game or when I run multiple programs (well, sometimes, often it also crashes when I only run one) and under Linux, it is all fine. (Haven't used it much tough, only to look at some websites)


Can anyone help me and come up with an explanation? It only started after I changed my Athlon 1200 to this new Athlon XP1800+ and changed the ram from a white brand to Apacer RAM.

 

[Jake75]

It is most likely that 235w PSU you have that cause you some headache.
You have some powerhungry components in that box and they will go on strike if they don´t get enough power.

I´ll recommend a >=300w quality PSU.

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[upec]

I also think most likely the problem is cause by the 235w PSU. I would suggest you to get an Enermax PSU with at least 300w.

 

[upec]

In reply to:
All the components are high quality. It's an Abit KG7 motherboard, with 256Mb Apacer DDram, a Geforce4Ti4200, A SB Awe64, a 3Com network card, a Maxtor 7200rpm 20Gb, a Creative 52x Cd-Rom and a 3-years old case from Aopen (with a 235W power supply) (oh, and a volcano 7 power supply)

I think most of the conponents are not high quality and they are old.