Sorry, but I see a hardware issue. I will not offer assistence to such a machine since I'm seeing far too many of them.
In short, the owner of such a machine should contact the machine's maker or vendor until the matter is resolved.
Bob
My friend has problems. THe following is what happens:
He managed to get his new PC setup working and have reinstalled everything to dual-boot system. But he can't do much in W2K before the screen freezes. He can usually get in between a minute and 5 minutes of time before he has to hit the power switch and start over.
The following components is what he has:
AMD ATHLON XP 2600/333 FSB CPU, two sticks of Crucial 515 MB memory, DDR and a ASUS Mobo Model # A7N8X Delux. His PSU is 400+W, but I don't know the exact amount of Watts...
Anyone has a solution or suggestion?
Thanks in advance.

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