My brother has an old computer (not as old as mine) that has a nasty problem. It tends to freeze completely almost immediately after starting it. It starts all programs normally, you can see the desktop and within the first minute or so something goes wrong. It doesn't always happen, but very often it does and it's very annoying. If it doesn't lock up, it works perfectly. No programs cause problems, or anything like that.
Where do you start looking for the cause of this problem? I thought it might have something to do with antivirus or firewall incompatibility, but using different programs\combinations didn't help at all. The same goes for switching from Windows 2000 to XP.
Could it be a hardware problem (by the way, the hard disk is new, should be ok)? Updating drivers won't work, because all components are not supported anymore ( latest drivers are at least 3 years old).
What to do now?
Where do you start looking for the cause of this problem? I thought it might have something to do with antivirus or firewall incompatibility, but using different programs\combinations didn't help at all. The same goes for switching from Windows 2000 to XP.
Could it be a hardware problem (by the way, the hard disk is new, should be ok)? Updating drivers won't work, because all components are not supported anymore ( latest drivers are at least 3 years old).
What to do now?
