Could be LOTS of different things, but based on your note that it happens most when 
you're moving large amounts of data around, I would go into Control Panel/System/Hardware/Device 
Manager, and look at the Properties on each of your IDE Channels, and look in the 
Advanced Settings to make sure none of them are set to PIO...should be some form 
of DMA instead.







On Monday, June 23, 2008 at 2:30 pm, Jeigh wrote:

>Ok if you read my other post this is problem 2, which is as follows: 

>

>I have been working on this computer for about two weeks now ever part is brand 
new 

>including the OS. I though perhaps I had a virus so I scanned it using both Bit 
Defender 

>and PC-Cillin (which came with the board software) The processor is a 3.20 Ghz Celeron 

>and I am running 1 gig of DDR PC3200 400Mhz RAM. I have noticed a real annoying 
flaw 

>in the system that is getting more pronounced as time goes one. During use it will 

>lock up and freeze there soild. At first the hard drive light would stay on. But 

>now it doesn't I am running two 200 gig Maxtors divided into 100 partitions and 
even 

>that doesn't seem to matter (as I had it set up before as straight out one drive 

>one partition). Virus scans turn up nothing and it happens when ever I throw large 

>data around....i.e. downloading a music file over 5 megs, recording a video into 

>the system, moving a directory from folder to folder, and so on. I have wondered 

>if it is the lack of memory that could cause this or the fact that I am running 
a 

>Celeron processor? Any ideas would be welcome! Thank you! 

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