I had all the parts from my old tower merged into a new CoolerMaster Storm Scout ATX case, and added 1GB RAM and a 250GB SATA drive. But as it turned out, my motherboard didnt have any SATA ports, so they installed some card that allowed me to use the SATA drive internally (rather than put it in a cradle) and loaded Windows XP onto it.
The system freezes constantly. A key trigger with the freezing seems to be any data transfer - uTorrent, gaming app patch installers, and Firefox - in that order, from most frequent freezing to least. I've never had a PC that froze alot, so I dunno what to do here.
What diagnostics should I be running to address this problem?
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Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium 4, 2666 MHz (20 x 133)
Motherboard Name Intel Rexburg D845GRG (3 PCI, 1 AGP, 2 DIMM, Audio, Video)
Motherboard Chipset Intel Brookdale-G i845G
System Memory 1536 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type AMI (04/01/03)
Display:
Video Adapter ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series (512 MB)
Video Adapter ATI Radeon HD 3600 Series (512 MB)
Monitor LG Flatron L1751S [17" LCD] (151016337)
Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Logitech USB Headset
Storage:
IDE Controller Intel® 82801DB Ultra ATA Storage Controller - 24CB
SCSI/RAID Controller Silicon Image SiI 3512 SATARaid Controller
Disk Drive ST325031 8AS SCSI Disk Device (232 GB SATA)
Disk Drive WDC WD400JB-00ENA0 (37 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive SAMSUNG HD103SI USB Device (931 GB, USB)
Optical Drive HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55N
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 238472 MB (219561 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 38154 MB (38088 MB free)
F: (NTFS) 953867 MB (643195 MB free)
Total Size 1201.7 GB (879.7 GB free)
Network:
Network Adapter Intel® PRO/100 VE Network Connection
Peripherals:
USB1 Controller Intel 82801DB ICH4 - USB Controller [A-1]
USB1 Controller Intel 82801DB ICH4 - USB Controller [A-1]
USB1 Controller Intel 82801DB ICH4 - USB Controller [A-1]
USB2 Controller Intel 82801DB ICH4 - Enhanced USB2 Controller [A-1]
USB Device USB Audio Device
USB Device USB Composite Device
USB Device USB Composite Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Human Interface Device
USB Device USB Mass Storage Device.