New build acting weird

[Jim Baxter]

I need some advice

My new build is acting kind of quirky. I am getting random shutdown. No consistently though which doesn't help. Most of the time it happens when I am visiting a website or forum such as this. It just shuts down.

I am using a program called System Mechanics 5 Professional for protection as it suposedly has anti virus, hacker protection, system cleanup and defrag, registry cleaner, and other nifty little tools, but I am a little leary of it as I
can't get the anti virus to update or do a full scan.

I also have and run Ad Aware once a week.

I have but not installed Norton 2004, Spybot, Spyware blocker.

I am about to re format and start over.

Do I just install the Window xp cd and click on install windows?

Will it auto detect all my components?

What programs do you guys recommend for protection.

I am using Firefox and Mozilla browser and e-mail systems.

Sorry for the long post and thanks for the help

[spyder003]

Originally Posted by Jim Baxter What programs do you guys recommend for protection.

AVG (With periodic scans from Housecall and/or Panda Activescan) and Zone Alarm or Kerio.

I wouldn't install Norton04 if you like your system resources.

[Jim Baxter]

Any links?

How about the reformat? Is my approach correct?

Thanks again

[spyder003]

Originally Posted by Jim Baxter Any links?

AVG

Housecall

Activescan

Zone Alarm

Kerio

Originally Posted by Jim Baxter How about the reformat? Is my approach correct?

I wouldn't reformat. It could be any number of things, you don't know if it's a hardware or software problem. Do you get any kind of warning or error before it shuts down or after you reboot?

The first thing I would do is a virus scan with one of the links above.

[Jim Baxter]

That's whats baffeling me.

I installed and ran AVG (free version) and no virus detected.

I get no warning on shut down. It just shuts down.

When I reboot, there is no error message, just goes to my desktop.

It has to be a conflict somewhere, and I don't know how to find it.

[glc]

Have you checked your temperatures?

[Jim Baxter]

Yes, I have 3 120mm fans plus the 2 on the PS and 1 on the video card. Temps are running cool per ABIT Guru

CPU = 43C
SYS = 32C
PWM = 30C

ps: what is PWM?

[Jim Baxter]

Well, I may be on the right track. I was finally able to get System Mechanic5 Pro un-installed. It was a task.

I have no had a problem with shut down in over ten hours of constant on.
I have downloaded a program, read and returned mail, visited and made comments in a couple of forums, and so far so good.

Maybe SM5 doesn't like Firefox.