No spyware. The machine was plugged into a corporate network behind a checkpoint firewall. Nothing had even been installed on it yet, it locked up within a minute of the first boot after I wiped it and resintalled XP. It has also locked up when not online at all. No single program is related to the ...

I have an A31 that freezes frequently in Win2K and XP with no error messages or anything (never seen either OS do that before!). Even a fresh installation on a newly formatted drive still did it. However, I made a second partition on the drive and installed Linux and that has no problems whatsoever....