windows 2000 Lockups

Been having my computer lockup during games, and now it locked up while watching a trailer for a movie I downloaded. When I say lockup I mean it locks up tight, no mouse response, no keyboard response, all I can do is hit the rest button.

I started noticing it about a month ago in Jedi Knight outcase, at that time I just thought that it was because of my cd rom drive. It was slowy dieing Was having troubles reading cds. Well I finally replaced the cd rom drive with a cd burner and now it seems that any game I play now I am garateed a lockup and now I has happened while watching a movie. I was thinking last week that it had to be a heat issue because it was pretty warm in the room that the computer is located. also because I had updated all of the drives, scandisk, defrag, AVscan, Directx reinstalled, windows update, unhook new cd burnner. check all cables. and now I am Out of idea. HELP

system specs
abit kr7a-133
AMD XP 1700+ never overclocked
MSI GEFORCE 2 MX-400 64mg
liteon cd Rewiter 32x12x40x
Hecules Gamesurround FortissimoII
Maxtor 60GB 7200RM ATA 133
Windows 2000 Pro
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check if u are using Udma cable (80 wire - colored end to board) ,,also check in control panel/admin tools/comp mgment/device mnger/ide that udma is enabled ,,if ness install service pack 2/3 and try that.

FtF

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by freddy:
<strong>check if u are using Udma cable (80 wire - colored end to board) ,,also check in control panel/admin tools/comp mgment/device mnger/ide that udma is enabled ,,if ness install service pack 2/3 and try that.

FtF</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">check the cable and I replaced the cable. also in device manager it checked out. Downloaded service pack 2 just now and installed it. still locking up.

This is starting to piss me off.

Try pulling the video card and reseating it. The weather is getting hot and humid, sometimes connections come loose. Make sure the fan on the video card is running properly.

I just did a service with computer lockups. Turned out hd was failing.

Suggest you download powermax and put it on a bootable disk from <a href="http://www.maxtor.com" target="_blank">www.maxtor.com</a>

Do both quick and comprehensive tests.

Power supply????

What kind do you have and how many watts???

Virus???

Did you try the lastest via 4in 1 ver. 4.40 chipset patch from <a href="http://www.viaarena.com" target="_blank">www.viaarena.com</a>

Memory???

Software related issues???

Junky Abit motheroard??

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by cookin chef:
<strong>Junky Abit motheroard??</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I have the same issue on my abit kt7a-raid. Might be something to that crappy mobo statement. I'll not be buying another of their boards. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

Well I think I may have found my problem, Bad Sound card. Took out the sound card and installed a different one, and so far no lockups. :)

Thanks for the Ideas, they were very helpful.

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by cookin chef:
<strong>I just did a service with computer lockups. Turned out hd was failing.

Suggest you download powermax and put it on a bootable disk from <a href="http://www.maxtor.com" target="_blank">www.maxtor.com</a>

Do both quick and comprehensive tests.

Power supply????

What kind do you have and how many watts???

Virus???

Did you try the lastest via 4in 1 ver. 4.40 chipset patch from <a href="http://www.viaarena.com" target="_blank">www.viaarena.com</a>

Memory???

Software related issues???

Junky Abit motheroard??</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'll be darn if I didn't run the utility from Maxtor and find my drive is going bad too! Thanks for the info bud!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by ilovetheusers:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Junky Abit motheroard??</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'll be darn if I didn't run the utility from Maxtor and find my drive is going bad too! Thanks for the info bud![/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Glad to be of service!!!
:)

I didn't even consider the soundcard.
Silly me.

may updated drivers for it might correct the lockup issues as well if it is reused again.

Simple,

DITCH M$

Get Mandrake 8.2 or the luverly nice SUSE!!

Fixes all known MS problems!!

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by HOGMAN:
<strong>Simple,

DITCH M$

Get Mandrake 8.2 or the luverly nice SUSE!!

Fixes all known MS problems!!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">great comment on a windows help page ,,,,please go to linux centre .

FtF