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<blockquote data-quote="noob with an RS" data-source="post: 1476788" data-attributes="member: 558925"><p>ok here&#039;s the deal. about two months ago i built my buddy a decked-out computer. it took ten seconds to get into windows starting from POST.. the computer has a 3700 mhz san diego athlon 64 chip and 2 gigs of ram and a sweet video card. its lightning fast compared to my 3ghz athlon. well now hes complaining about it freezing up on him in the mornings. he said he&#039;ll wake up to go turn on his computer and it&#039;ll freeze during the screen that shows the windows xp logo with the blue squares at the bottom moving.. when it freezes those squares just stop moving. then he&#039;ll turn his computer off and turn it bac on and instead of freezing, it will lag at that same exact screen. by lag, i mean that it will take at least a minute to get into windows. the windows xp logo shows and the blue squares at the bottom are moving the whole time. but it takes at least a minute to get into windows. it use to take 10 seconds no exaggeration. does anyone have any ideas what it might be? the last time it did this because the onboard sound was enabled in BIOS and a sound blaster live! PCI was installed (i guess they were conflicting with each other?). i took out the sound blaster live and just chose for him to use the onboard sound and that seemed to fix the boot-up problem. but now his computer is having this similar symptom again and im going to head to his house after work to chec it out. anyone have any ideas? your help will be greatly appreciated!!thanks.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="noob with an RS, post: 1476788, member: 558925"] ok here's the deal. about two months ago i built my buddy a decked-out computer. it took ten seconds to get into windows starting from POST.. the computer has a 3700 mhz san diego athlon 64 chip and 2 gigs of ram and a sweet video card. its lightning fast compared to my 3ghz athlon. well now hes complaining about it freezing up on him in the mornings. he said he'll wake up to go turn on his computer and it'll freeze during the screen that shows the windows xp logo with the blue squares at the bottom moving.. when it freezes those squares just stop moving. then he'll turn his computer off and turn it bac on and instead of freezing, it will lag at that same exact screen. by lag, i mean that it will take at least a minute to get into windows. the windows xp logo shows and the blue squares at the bottom are moving the whole time. but it takes at least a minute to get into windows. it use to take 10 seconds no exaggeration. does anyone have any ideas what it might be? the last time it did this because the onboard sound was enabled in BIOS and a sound blaster live! PCI was installed (i guess they were conflicting with each other?). i took out the sound blaster live and just chose for him to use the onboard sound and that seemed to fix the boot-up problem. but now his computer is having this similar symptom again and im going to head to his house after work to chec it out. anyone have any ideas? your help will be greatly appreciated!!thanks. [/QUOTE]

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