I had a BAD virus attack that decimated my system plus was causing system freezes randomly after approximately 10 minutes of use. Long story short my system was freezing even after the infection was cleaned so I re-installed Windows (XP Pro sp2). My COMPUTER is still freezing on boot up. Alternately at the black Windows screen with the loading bar, the blue welcome screen, or very occasionally it will boot up fine and freeze right after boot up (on the desktop). Safe mode seems to boot up FULLY functional but also freezes after 20 minutes or so.

I have re-formatted both hard drives, installed windows separately on each drive (several times) and tried booting up with only one HDD connected. I have tried just about everything I know, but I'm starting to THINK hardware problem. Help?

Athlon 64x2 4200+ Dual Core 2.21GHz
2 x 1GB ddr-400 copper jacketed gaming RAM
Windows XP Pro sp2

Thank you!
inthedark.

PS - might take me a while to reply. I have to come into town with the laptop. There's no high speed at my house, and no dial-up in my laptop. and of course, my home system is useless at the moment.Run memetest: http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic62524.html

Download, and install SpeedFan: http://www.almico.com/sfdownload.php
Post your computer temperatures:



Provide processor info.OK. I have downloaded the programs and will run them when I get home. I should be able to post the RESULTS tomorrow.

As an update I tried removing each RAM stick and booting up with only one installed. It still freezes with either RAM stickHmmm. sorry for the double post.

Here is the CPU info



And the Mainboard



And the memory



And here is the speedfan report



Memtest found no errors. I ran 7 passes on each ram stick, then on both together to be safe. All seems well there.Who cleaned the infection?I cleaned the infection.

The virus blocked access to any major well-known antivirus or PC repair utilities and websites, but I found an obscure little program called stopsign that allowed me to at least get rid of the virus.

It didn't really give me much info on the virus. It was a Trojan that started from a file in the system32 folder. That's about all it told me.

After that the system files were so screwed up that I just re-installed Windows (with a full format after deleting the main partition.)

I assume that cleaned the virus off...

Someone mentioned physically resetting the BIOS using jumpers, but I really don't know how to do that.