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Yea, that didn't seem to work after all. I've tried ruling out hardware by taking everything possible out and adding one by one. It froze up while I had everything out of the computer. I think my motherboard is going bad. I suppose I should invest in a new comp.

thanks marty. I did what you said and froze up while in safe mode. i noticed an exclamation mark beside my video driver. I thought no big deal i haven't installed my Nvidia driver since trying to reinstall windows. After that, i thought, 'i loaded an update for Nvidia before my computer started acting weird.' Maybe there was a problem and I didn't see it before. i reinstalled the driver. Now the exclamation mark is gone. Hopefully this will fix my problem. Also I ran spybot and only had one thing come up. I fixed that problem as well. Anyways time will tell. Thanks marty

Don't really see any processes that shouldn't be there! I'm starting to think that I need to replace my motherboard.

I'll have to see if I have another power supply anywhere. Not sure that I still do. My cpu usage also is going up like 72% when I move a window. Or just moving the mouse can make it increase by 20%. I'm pretty sure this is not normal. Could this have anything to do with the power supply?

My PC freezes at random. I'll be lucky to finish writing this. After it freezes I can't move the mouse, ctrl, alt, del or absolutely anything! I have to turn it off. When trying to turn it back on it seems as though it freezes. Power comes on but my bios won't even come up. I talked to Sir_Sid and he recommended that I write this forum. I have tried to pull my cmos, I have also looked at system errors and I have a 4. These are ATAPI. "The device device/IDE/IDE Port 1 did not respond within the timeout period." I have a 5002US Compaq Presario with an 800MHz AMD Duron Processor. In it