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Hi,
This could be either hardware or software related.
I recently changed out the motherboard of my systems to a dual CPU ABIT board with only one 1 GHz P3 CPU (the other socket has a broken tab so I can't mount a heat sink, but the board was given to me by a friend). I have 1 GB RAM, a 30 GB IBM HD, Creative SB Live sound, Windows XP Pro, and the system is running 24/7 with no obvious configuration problems (clean device manager...etc.). My problem (which has been getting gradually worse for the past 2 months) is almost every morning the system is frozen (monitor is in the sleep mode so I can't see any error messages) and many times I see the HD LED continuously lit. The only solution is to hit the reset button to reboot the system. The interesting thing is that normally when you reset a WXP system like this, it wants to run CHKDSK during the reboot. However, whatever the cause of this lockup, it has never prompted me to run CHKDSK on the drives. I have been suspecting a bad RAM module, but solicit the advise of others who may have seen this kind of problem before. I am seriously considering going back to my very reliable 600 MHz P3 that I was running before.
Thanks,
Tomboy
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Tomboy 
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