Pc Crashes

[waynekerr114]

Hi Gang i have make a new pc for my son and it went all ok but there problems now weird ones happing. Well if i play games it plays for hours no problems but if he users msn word or outlook express it crashes even yourtube does it but games are fine ??????? weird to say the least. So any help would be great on this as i am checkmated as they say with this problem i have put in a new power supply reformatted pc as well so they are out of the question so here are the specs thank you.

 

WINDOWS XP SP2

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Socket AM2 (2.2GHz) L2 1MB (2x512KB) Retail Boxed Processor

 

XFX 8600GT 256MB DDR3 540MHz Core Clock 2xDVI PCI-E

 

Extra Value 1GB Kit (2x512MB) DDR2 667MHz/PC2-5400 240pin Extra Value Ram

 

Asustek M2V AM2 VIAK8T890 Sound, Gigalan And USB 2.0 2000MHz FSB SATA ATX

 

IDE HARD DRIVE SEAGATE 80GIG

 

Memory is made by elixir i use this Memory all the time never let me down.

 

Waynekerr114 :)

 

P.s 600 WATT POWER SUPPLY

[danzil]

do you have anti virus, is your xp fully updated.

run an anti virus scan if you can using http://www.trendmicro.com

do you get an error messages,check event viewer.

regards

danzil

event viewer is located control panel>administrive tools>event viewer may attentio to the system directory