Abit AN8 AMD freezing

Hi,

I'm hoping someone here can help me. I built this pc about a year and a half ago and every once in a while it will freeze up on me and the mouse and keyboard will not respond. It is locking up almost every day now. Nothing works except rebooting with the reset button. I found a thread somewhere where one person said to disable the "Cool and Quiet" setting in the BIOS so I tried it and it made no difference.

Here's what I have:

Box: Antec TX1050B - Box w/500W PS

120mm fan in back
80mm fan in front

http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=61050

MB: Abit AN8 nVidia Socket 939 ATX
CPU: AMD A64 X2 4600+ 2.4G 939 1M R

Video card: MSI GeForce 6600 256MB, PCI Express NX6600-TD256E

Audio card: M-Audio Delta DiO 24/96 (I disabled the embedded audio on MB)

RAM: Dual Channel DDR 400 (3) 1 GB sticks

Hard drives:
(4) SATA direct to motherboard
(2) PATA through an IDE expansion card.
(3) CD/DVD drives on MB IDE slots

each 3 HD "bay" has a 80mm cooling fan

I'm keeping the dust down in the room as well as blowing out the box with a can of compressed air occasionally.

I use AVG free edition for antivirus software.
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OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer NVIDIA
System Model AWRDACPI
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2411 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1 AuthenticAMD ~2411 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Phoenix Technologies, LTD 6.00 PG, 1/19/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.2
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume2
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
Time Zone Central Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 3,072.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 2.54 GB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 5.84 GB

Thanks for any/all help,

Ken

**Update**

The machine just locked up while copying files from an external hard drive to an internal hard drive via usb. I guess it did not like that. Do the usb drivers need updating?

Thanks again,
Ken

 

I'm the only one?

ok. I fixed the problem. The BIOS needed to be updated.