Lacychels

Lotus - Because I didn't want all the extraneous garbage, I had it built to my specs. Here are the system specs for my "Tiger XP2600 System" - built by Systemax. Mid-Tower ATX Chassis w/300W PS nForce2 Motherboard AMD Athlon XP2600+ 333FSB Processor 512MB DDR333 PC2700 Non-ECC Memory 160GB Ultra ATA (7200rpm) Hard Drive Geforce 4 MX440-T8X 64MB AGP Card w/ TV-Out 52X32X52/16X Combo Drive 4X DVD-/+ R/RW Drive 56K V.92 PCI Modem Logitech iTouch Keyboard Systemax Mouse Windows XP Home Edition MS Office Professional 2003 Adobe Acrobat Reader I installed the following (note: as mentioned in my initial posting, these were installed on my old Hewlitt-Packard system and caused no problems): Norton AntiVirus FinePx Viewer (for Fuji digital camera) Lexmark Z32-Z22 Color Printer Enter.net - ISP - w/ "Propel Accelerator" Because of the continuing problems, I have purposely kept my computer as "clean" as possible.

In January I purchased a Systemax computer with an AMD Athalon processor, Windows XP Home, MS Office 2003 Professional. Since turning on the computer I have had constant problems with it freezing. Sometimes it evens reboots itself - the screen goes black and then it boots. When it reboots, most often a message appears saying the system has recovered from a "serious error". When it merely freezes and I have to manually reboot, it usually does a disk/file scan. Anyway, I have talked with Systemax tech service, but they are blaming it on a software problem. However, I don't have much extra software installed and it is nothing that wasn't on my old computer which did not act this way. Any suggestions on what might be causing the computer to freeze/reboot at random and any solutions to the problem?