My PC hates me......

Its me again.... Ive tried a 300Watt power supply with my XP 1700+ and I've disconnected all unnecessary fans, removed expansion cards etc... but I still get lockups, crashes and blue screens. I reckon its either some kind of hardware/software compatibility problem, a bios problem (although I have upgraded successfully to the latest version), or the motherboard/cpu is damaged... Any ideas which it could be? Is there a way I can find out?

Thanks.....

Spec:
Athlon XP 1700+
Thermaltake Volcano 6Cu+
Asus A7M266
256Mb Unbuffered DDR RAM
Generic 300Watt PSU
VooDoo5 5500 64Mb AGP
SB Live! 5.1

I also had a problem with an Asus mobo where it would lock-up a lot for no reason. Even trying all new drivers, patches, service packs, bios updates and even different operating systems. None of these solved the problem and in the end i bought an Abit KG7 and my computer hasn't crashed yet. I belive the problem was with the southbridge chip as this controlls the PCI slots and IDE ports and I think it was an IDE problem.

Try downloading some benchmarking soft like Sandra 2002 for Performance test and test each part of the computer at a tine i.e. the HHD then the RAM and so on. If your computer crashed during a certain point the this is proberly the problem.

www.passmark.com Performance test
http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/sandra/ Sandra 2002

Hope this helps.

I am moving this to AMD ASUS Motherboards and putting a copy in General Hardware. Good luck.

Anthony