I have an ongoing problem, which both Alienware tech support and I thought was the motherboard, but now I'm not so sure. Three months after I bought an Alienware Area-51 7900, the computer started to randomly freeze. It would happen no matter what I was doing on it. Often, when I'd reboot, the computer would get stuck. Sometimes it'd freeze while booting into Windows XP. But more often, it wouldn't get to any of the splash screens. The computer would turn on but neither monitor nor and of the perpherials would respond. After repeated Alienware tech support calls, I learned one way to fix it. If I opened up the computer and unplugged the hardrives, video cards, motherboard, RAM, and removed the little round battery on the motherboard, then plugged everything back in, the computer would boot up fine again. It's only a temporary fix, though, sometimes lasting only 24 hours. Thinking it was a defective motherboard, Alienware replaced it. That fixed the problem for a couple months. But now the problem is happening again. I'm going to give tech support another call, but before I do, I wanted to see if anyone had an ideas of what could be causing the problem so I could suggest some things to tech support. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. My computer's specs: Area-51 7500-R3 Full-tower green case 2.0B chassis ASUS PFN32SLISEDEL 2.02 G motherboard Core 2 DUO 2.13GHZ E6400 4M cache 1066MHZ processor PDP 1GB DDR2 low latency PC-6400 AW96 memory Samsung Spinpoint 250GB SATA 3G NCQ system drive Samsung Spinpoint 250GB SATA 3G NCQ storage drive NEC 16X dual layer DVD±R/W recorder primary CD ROM/DVD ROM Lite-On 52/32/52 CD-RW black Rev.3 secondary CD ROM/DVD ROM ASUS P5N32-SLIDELUXE integrated audio sound card EVGA nVidia GeForce 7900 GX2 1GB Long PCIE graphics processor Microsoft Windows XP Pro COA operating system (Office software not included) Cyberlink PowerDVD 6.0 operating system (Office software not included) Symantec Ghost Corporate Version 8 (License) warranty AlienAutopsy: Automated technical support request system warranty AlienGuise Invader Alienware Extras Technical Reference for ASUS P5N32-SLI Deluxe PDF operating system (Office software not included) Owner identification card operating system (Office software not included) AVC Pentium 5 Dual Coard HSF Z9H741K001 chassis upgrades Alienware main board RGB REV 4 chassis upgrades Control ELC DIP card chassis upgrades ELC to Motherboard USB cable REV3 chassis upgrades ELC to Motherboard PWR/HD cable REV3 chassis upgrades 700 WATT OEM ATX PSU GX2 7900/7950 Dual slot card keeper graphics processor

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