ok i am currently running a system with these specs

OS: vista home premium

CPU : dual core 3.1 ghtz amd athlon

MB: ASUS M2A-VM

Ram : 8 gig installed and recognized.

Video : Nvidia GeForce 9600gt 512

Sound : Mobo


the issues that i am have are these,

As of today i completely wiped the computer HDD by doing a reformat and
doing a clean install of the OS. what is happening is that explorer.exe
will crash suddenly without any warning and no error will appear other
than the following messages

explorer has stopped working
windows is checking for a solution

then nothing happens except the option to close the popup.
I have been researching this issue since it started about three weeks
ago and the general concensus was to roll back the computer. now that i
have done that (reinstall completely/reformating) i am still getting
this occurence.

the second thing that has become a regular occurence is that the sleep
function has been disabled completely. when i hit the sleep button from
the start menu the computer will act as if it is going into sleep mode
then almost instantly bring itself out of sleep. i have check all the
options within power management and they are as they should be, i have
checked the bios as well and it has not changed since i first set it up
for this system.

please any help whatsoever would be greatly appreciated.

another thing this is not an older computer it was bought just in
december.


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wolfe