foolygoofy26

Hi

I bought a custom build computer on 2004. It worked find then. It had XP Pro until Genuine came out. I put the computer a side as my dad bought a new computer and the custom was left a side just for gaming due to the RAMs and Video card. A month ago I moved and reformated the hard drive and installed windows XP home (A Genuine copy)...then the problems came.

Installing XP home was a mission since the computer would freeze when the computer was reformation or copying files. After the 12 try finally I was able to install XP. Then the second problem came when restaring the computer. I need to have the XP CD in the drive in order for XP to load, if not I would get an error that the Disk can not be found.

After getting all the XP updates the USB ports (2 ports) that worked before with my Sony digital camera and my web cam it would not work. In the past I would just plug in and one plug would tell it was not a 2.0 but everything would work. Now I get the message on both ports, but I can not get the cams to work.

The final frustuation came after installing a game (Jane's F-15) and the game would freeze after 10 minutes. I installed another game (Rise of Nations) and I would get the same. The computer doesn't freeze with anything else but games. There has been 2 other times that it has frozen on the screen saver (XP My Pictures Slide Show). With these freeze nothing works, no mouse, no keyboard, you press num lock or caps and the lights just stay on.

Any body familiar with this?

The Sytem:
Intel P3.
2.0GHz
768MB SDRam 133
80GB HDD
nVidia 256MB Video card

Notes:
When the system froze installing XP and I would try again and again it would usually freeze at the same place(Done with the reformat settings and ready to install XP). If I would turn the system off for a couple of hours, it would then go further on the installation.

Thanks.