Thanks for the response! It all started when I took the hard drive to Geek
Squad to repair or replace my optical drives which were both not working.
They did a diagnostic and found both drives were bad and that my Win XP was
"corrupted". They suggested a full windows restore. They first restored my
original Win 98 and then restored my Win XP Home Upgrade. All files were
backed up to Seagate External Hard Drive. I brought it home and installed a
new external CD/DVD Drive and a Wireless Router. All installs went well. Now
it keeps freezing up.....I had to reboot 3 times just to write this reply
because of freezing up.

"Michael D. Alligood" wrote:

> Alison, it totally depends on how the Operating System was restored; if
> it was completely restored (i.e. drive formatted and the operating
> system reloaded), repaired (no formatting, just replacing system files),
> or Windows restored (Windows System Restore).
>
> Normally if your system was completely restored and you are still
> experiencing issues with lockups, it could be faulty hardware.
> Lockups/freezes can be caused by numerous of things; faulty drivers,
> faulty hardware, memory leaks from corrupt software, spyware/malware,
> etc.
>
> Please give us a little more details as to the original problem (why you
> had it reloaded) and what has happened since. That way we can better
> help you.
>
> --
> Michael D. Alligood,
> MCSA, MCDST, MCP, A+,
> Network+, i-Net+, CIW Assoc.,
> CIW Certified Instructor
>
>
>
> "Alison" <Alison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:1BB53F9C-3B98-429E-BCD9-9C3977B154E9@microsoft.com:
>
> > Just had a Windows XP Home system restore because of corruption. Ever since I
> > got it home it keeps freezing. It freezes at least once an hour during any
> > operation, ie. internet, outlook email, documents, etc... It completely
> > freezes, no mouse, no keyboard, no ctrl+alt+del.....nothing! I have to shut
> > down the whole computer and then restart it manually......upon start-up each
> > time there is no scan disk.
> >
> > What could be the problem?!?!?
> >
> > Thanks for any help!!!
>
>