Windows XP keeps freezing up

[Guest Rich]

I am running XP Pro, about a week ago (no new programs added) my

computer would start freezing up sometimes but not always which makes it

even more confusing. Usually but not always it's as I launch a program,

try to exit a program or when I try to exit windows itself..

 

I try Ctrl + alt+del and something in the background changes (like

behind the frozen program I cannot get out of, I can see my desktop

appear behind the program)....windows task manager MAY appear, if does

at that time it too may lock up. Whenever this 'freeze' occurs I cannot

leave windows, I have to shut off the power. Other times windows task

manager doesn't appear at all.....and yet other times when it will

appear and doesn't lock up, I click the frozen program to "end process"

and then windows itself locks up.

and yet I can launch it now and it works fine.. I have run my updated

anti-virus, done a chkdsk/r, run Spybot and No Adware....nothing is out

of order.

The memory does appear low at times.....

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> OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional

> Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600

> OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

> System Name SONYNEW

> System Manufacturer Sony Corporation

> System Model PCV-RZ50CG(UC)

> System Type X86-based PC

> Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~3191 Mhz

> Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 9 GenuineIntel ~3192 Mhz

> BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 1005, 10/1/2004

> SMBIOS Version 2.3

> Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS

> System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32

> Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2

> Locale United States

> Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"

> User Name SONYNEW\Richard

> Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time

> Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB

> Available Physical Memory 592.21 MB

> Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB

> Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB

> Page File Space 2.41 GB

> Page File C:\pagefile.sys

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> 0xFE800000-0xFE8FFFFF Intel® 82865G\PE\P Processor to AGP Controller - 2571 OK

> 0xCFF00000-0xEFEFFFFF Intel® 82865G\PE\P Processor to AGP Controller - 2571 OK

> 0xF8000000-0xFBFFFFFF Intel® 82865G\PE\P Processor to AGP Controller - 2571 OK

> 0xD0000000-0xDFFFFFFF ATI RADEON 9600 Series OK

> 0xFE8F0000-0xFE8FFFFF ATI RADEON 9600 Series OK

> 0xFE900000-0xFE9FFFFF Intel® 82865G\PE\P Processor to PCI to CSA bridge - 2573 OK

> 0xFE9E0000-0xFE9FFFFF Intel® PRO/1000 CT Network Connection OK

> 0xFEBFFC00-0xFEBFFFFF Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller OK

> 0xF0000000-0xF3FFFFFF Sony MPEG RealTime encoder board OK

> 0xFEAFE000-0xFEAFEFFF NEC OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller OK

> 0xFED20000-0xFED8FFFF Motherboard resources OK

> 0xFFB00000-0xFFBFFFFF Motherboard resources OK

> 0xFEC00000-0xFEC00FFF Motherboard resources OK

> 0xFEE00000-0xFEE00FFF Motherboard resources OK

> 0xFFEFFC00-0xFFEFFFFF Intel® 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers OK

> 0x0000-0x9FFFF System board OK

> 0xFFF00000-0xFFFFFFFF System board OK

> 0xA0000-0xBFFFF PCI bus OK

> 0xA0000-0xBFFFF Intel® 82865G\PE\P Processor to AGP Controller - 2571 OK

> 0xA0000-0xBFFFF ATI RADEON 9600 Series OK

> 0xC0000-0xDFFFF System board OK

> 0xE0000-0xFFFFF System board OK

> 0x100000-0x3FFFFFFF System board OK

> 0x40000000-0xFFEFFFFF PCI bus OK

 

 

 

Anyone got any ideas?

 

Rich