chris_irwin89

Hi, i recently installed windows vista ultimate 32 bit, and since i have had it i am getting a lot of system crashes, mainly the screen just freezes when i am doing something simple like scrolling down a webpage, with little or no other programs running. I leave it for 10 minutes but nothing happens so i have to hit the restart button. Also, when i turn the computer off normally but hitting shutdown on the windows bar, when i next boot up the pc it gives me an unexpected shutdown message with the option to go into safemode, even though i shut it down correctly. Now originally, windows gave me a troubleshooting option which found my graphics card driver to be out of date, but i reinstalled an updated vista version and the same thing is happening but without the troubleshooting guide when i boot up.



heres my specs

Asus p4s800 motherboard
intel pentium 4 3.00ghz processor
1023mb ram
radeon 9800 pro graphics card


let me know if you need any more specs.


Thank you

dai

what power supply is in it
brand
wattage

chris_irwin89

the power supply is 400watts, not too sure of the brand, il have a look later, i don;t have time to take the case off right now. I am using the same power supply as i was in my old setup, it's just a different case. The only difference is it has a side fan and front led light up. I still think it's something to do with the radeon driver because occasionally i still get the troubleshooting guide and it still tells me there's a problem with the driver. But i have installed the vista version so i'm not sure what to do. Would installing the driver through device manager rather than the installation process help?

dai

uninstall the driver and software and reinstall from safe mode with a/virus disabled whilst installing