Very frustrating intermittent fault, please help

[neo36uk]

My new system is:

Asus A7N8X-Deluxe Motherboard
AMD 2.5 Barton Processor
512 Meg double sided DDR 400, inserted into DDR slot 3
SoundBlaster Audigy2 platinum soundcard
56k modem
USB2 PCI card with 4 rear ports and 1 internal
Pinnacle studio DV plus firewire card with analogue output
NVIDIA Gforce 2 mx400 4x graphics card.
Windows XP Professional SP1

I have disabled onboard sound, modem, and lan ports,
I have enabled quite fan technology, and changed the boot sequence to cdrom, ide0

Most of the time my new system works fine, but sometimes after it boots and I double click my computer from the desk top, or try to open it from the start menu then it seems to freeze.

It opens the mycomputer window but the animated torch appears over the top of the folder and no icons appear in that window at all. Also, if I right click my computer either from the desktop or start menu, then select properties, the properties window won’t appear for about 2-3 minutes

if however I start my system in safe mode, then double click my computer from desktop or start menu it opens fine every time, and so dose the system propties.

Any ideas anybody? Like I say, the problem seems intermittent, but seems worse when the computer has been off for several hours then booted for the first time.

Hope u can help before I go mad

[Hpro]

Hi there , have you tried to remove the Disc from the CDrom and also cleaned out old temp files etc?
The next I would suggest that you look at the Startup configuration - the can be done by typing MSCONFIG in the Start > Run command line and then OK or enter.
Disable all the Software from autostart which is not needet right away by you or the System.Then last but not least how long it is since you defragged the hard drive the last time?
Hope this helps.
Hpro

[[Mystic]]

Sounds like some driver problem if it works fine in safe mode...

[[Mystic]]

Run windows updater and see if there are any new drivers for your hardware :P

[neo36uk]

Hello

Thanks for the tips folks, but I have already tried all the things you have suggested.

I have just booted my computer after leaving it for roughly 10 hours and it has decided to boot fine first time.

Now, I find that if I was to turn it off for a couple of hours, then boot it again then I would get the horrible problem again.

I have tried all sorts of things like leaving it turned of with no disks in the drives and then rebooting, also by leaving disks in drives, including floppy then rebooting but it is making no difference, it just appears that the computer dose it when it feels like it.

At first I though tit might be XP Pro but I have used XP Pro on my old Celeron 800MHz 512 ram, and it has worked 101%.

This one has beaten me!!!


Thanks again