"Windows hangs " problem

hi guys,
My friend's PC which i am trying to fix hangs every now and then..
- when its rebooting
- when I am typing
- it can hang anytime..

tried scandisk, spyware(ad aware,spyhunter,etc) and reinstalled drivers.
and it's still hanging.

any insight to the problem

It could be almost anything. Do you have any more details on when it hangs or is it truly random? What hardware does he have installed?

It might be some faulty drivers!

Any new hardware was installed?

And u said (and reinstalled drivers) which drivers have you checked?

no new hardware installed.
that's what i told him too. it can be anything.
but if he hasnt installed anything, it couldnt possibly just spoil like that....

I will check with him again.
bet he missed out something that he shld have told me!!
thanks guys.

hey everybody.

seems like my friend first reinstalled the windows and from there, it kept stuffing up.
to make things worse, he flashed bios for some reason.
followed by reinstalling drivers.

all too confusing for me . So, I advised him to upgrade his computer. It's a P3

lol.

What OS? If it's Win2K, this may be of help:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=820888

I have had this problem also on my computer that I put together myself. The problem ended up being the BIOS settings. I had an AGP 8x video card and I set the voltage to auto when it needed to be 1.5v or 1.3v or something. The memory was also set to 400mhz, which it was (PC3200 memory), yet my processor only had a 333mhz fsb, AMD Athlon XP 2600+. So I changed the mem speed to 333 and the comp ran fine. Anybody else with this processor though, does yours run hot?