Here are my specs: Amptron K7-810LMR Motherboard AMD Athlon 1.2 Tbird 384mb Ram (64mb dedicated to video) 30gb 7200rpm HD 52x CD 12x8x32 CDRW AMR 56k Modem Integrated sound, video, lan Since installing Windows XP on this pc, the system will periodically and randomly lock up. I am assuming this is related to the drivers for this motherboard since the PC never locked up using Win 98SE. I downloaded and installed the Win 2K drivers from the Amptron site, but there are not any Win XP drivers for this board other than the AMR modem. I have also flashed the BIOS to the most recent version. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

integrated video and sound could be you problem. update their drivers from the chipsets site. (ie nvidea, creative, ati).

How are you connected? Mine did this until I removed the XP PPPOE and Winpoet software(for a DSL connection).Although this native software allowed me to connect and surf it's bizzare networking setup caused frequent and random crashes. Once I removed that set-up and installed the Verizon XP software it all stopped. You may also want to try this if you have a NIC card installed Start>control panel(switch to classic view)>Network connections. Right click on the "LAN" box and select properties.Then highlite TCP/IP and click "properties".Then select that you want to manually enter the IP and enter- IP address 10.255.255.10 Subnet mask 255.255.255.0 Watch that boot time increase from 2+ min to like 30 sec!! Jimi_l

OK people... please remember that this operating system is build on 2000/NT foundation and actaully records errors in the EVENT VIEWER. Look at your EVENT VIEWER and you may run across the following STUPID errors (of which I still cannot find a fix for). 1. Ring Buffer overflow for your PS/2 device - I got this all the time with my optical mouse running through a PS/2 converter... kept crapping out my system. Moved the mouse over to the USB port and it did help, but the system still locked up. 2. ATAPI not responding. I too have two cdroms on my secondary ide bus and I would get TIME OUT errors. I wasn't accessing them... but still it hosed the system. Don't know what else to try. I had XP HOME and XP PROFESSIONAL and in both cases... I couldn't figure out a long term fix for these - so I am back on W2K until SP1 comes out for XP. I know this doesn't help much, but it may point you in the right direction. Bill Teeple

Thanks for all the posts. I have cable modem internet connection. I am using only the XP connection stuff and not any of the @home software. My lock ups are not just in explorer. I did download the chipset drivers for the sound, video, and lan and installed them. I also flashed the bios and put on all the MS XP updates. I think I have tracked my problem down to a faulty stick of memory. Pulled the one I suspect to be bad and haven't locked up for a couple of days now.