First of all, let me just congratulate you on your purchase of an AMD-power computer. None of that 66MHz FSB Intel crap. Okay anyway, off the top of my head I can think of a few things. Make sure that the CPU fan(s) are spinning freely. CPU overheating causes problems (namely locking up.) What brand is your hard drive? Maxtor Diamondmax series, WD Caviar Series or other? 20gb is an evolution point for the ata/100 bus. Hard drive may be ata/66 running on an ata/100 controller. That's never good. Also be sure that your memory is properly seated. You might try removing the memory and cleaning the gold fingers on the bottom of the chip(s) with a pink pencil eraser. Check for IRQ conflicts- right-click My computer and select properties. Go to the device manager tab and double click "Computer" at the top of the list. Scroll throught the items in the box and make sure that none of the devices' IRQs are the same. If you can't solve the problem I'll send you some diagnostic software.
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