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830539 2009-11-15 22:22:00 My Pc with Athlon 1.2GHz, Mobo AOpen, 2 Gbyte Ram win XP home started to freez first at explorer browser, then at startup.

Any suggestions?
Thanks
taly (5956)
830540 2009-11-15 23:13:00 First things first, I assume your running Anti Virus and have scanned? Also a Spyware scanner? Battleneter2 (9361)
830541 2009-11-16 02:36:00 Start fresh. Reformat and Reinstall

As much of a hassel as it is, you will notice a huge speed increase, not to mention cleaning out crap.

otherwise, post a HiJackThis Log
baabits (15242)
830542 2009-11-16 03:19:00 Scanned with McAfee and all clean.
Tried system restore, but it froze about in the middle of the restore process
taly (5956)
830543 2009-11-16 03:21:00 Boot into safe mode / networking then post a HJT log, and scan it with trojan remover and malwarebytes Speedy Gonzales (78)
830544 2009-11-16 05:35:00 Then do a Memtest. (http://www.memtest86.com/) feersumendjinn (64)
830545 2009-11-16 06:39:00 A PC that old, I wouldn't rule out a hardware issue, but McAfee isn't great either. Agent_24 (57)
830546 2009-11-16 22:08:00 Hi guys!
Cleared CIMOS using JP14 jumper on the mobo and it works. Almost, but McAfee stopped working, despite being installed and PC is connected to the internet . I have another pc sitting on the same modem and using it at the moment.
Can it be Telecom problem, temporary?

Thanks
taly (5956)
830547 2009-11-16 22:40:00 Get rid of Mcafee, and install something better Speedy Gonzales (78)
830548 2009-11-17 00:40:00 Hi guys!
Cleared CIMOS using JP14 jumper on the mobo and it works. Almost, but McAfee stopped working, despite being installed and PC is connected to the internet . I have another pc sitting on the same modem and using it at the moment.
Can it be Telecom problem, temporary?

Thanks

Please try running a full scandisk of your C: drive for possible bad sectors or at least a Chkdsk at a command prompt.

These types of threads are largely stabbing in the dark, but your symptoms fit possible bad sectors or Ram issues. You can test ram issues with Memtest86++ or similar. I am leaning hardware over software(or virus) from what you have said so far.
Battleneter2 (9361)
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