I just bought a new computer and within a day I'm already experiencing problems.
the reccomended resolution for my monitor is 1440x900, but when go into display settings and change the resolution it automatically changes it right back to the lowest resolution. Also I have had already a few instances where while I was startingup my computer it would freeze on me before even getting to the loggin screen. I am ready to snap and any help would be very appreciated.

Take it back.

If you want to start troubleshooting we can but a new computer should not have problems.

Therefore my first suggestion.

What do you think?

Yeah that's pretty much what I was thinking. I mean I spent 3500 bucks so that I'd have a good computer for when I go to school for 3d animation. I'm just so frustrated. I've gone through so much troubleshooting tonight already. The guy at the store that I had build this computer says he thinks it might be a faulty video card.

If you have any troubleshooting ideas I would appreciate it though. Gives me something to do tonight anyways..haha

I would just take it back to that guy and say Fix it!

For that kind of money you should have a flawless gem running there.

Let us know how it goes.

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As to ideas: did you load the latest graphics drivers?

I am more disturbed by the startup problems unless they also relate to graphics failure.

What exactly happens when it freezes and when exactly does it freeze?

Do you have to power off?

it happens as the windows icon withe loading bar is shown and then a few times I had to try to reboot. then I had some kind of old dos looking screen come up saying that there was a failure in loading windows. it also said something about hardware. I'm hopefully gonna get a chance to take it in tomorrow

As this happens outside of XP it probably doesn't log any errors.

You could try looking at the Event viewer: rt. click My Computer then click Manage then Event Viewer.
Or: Administrative Tools/Event Viewer or Start/Run/ eventvwr
Open the system as well as the application tabs & look for X errors. Click error line for details.
Post back the source & event id & Description especially of errors that seem to coincide with this issue.
Also check the Information lines that might coincide with this issue.

How to view and manage event logs in Event Viewer in Windows XP

Also view your Error Log via:

[1] Start Menu
[2] Help and Support
[3] Pick a Task
[4] Tools
[5] Advanced System Information
[6] View the Error Log

Look for any synchronous entries.

Also check your Device Manager under Display adapters:

Start/Run/ devmgmt.msc

Also perhaps dxdiag under Display:

start/Run/ dxdiag

I did find one thing that looked like it could have something to do with it in event manager. It said this when I opened this error.........."COM+Event Sytem detected a bad return code during it's internal processing" it also said it's a catagory (50).
So I don't know. That's the extent of searching for an answer that I'm gonna be doing

Event category 50 deals with hardware issues.

The Event ID might be more specific.

But again just take it back.

Let us know how it goes.

I would love to see the specs on that machine

Post back this scan if you want to:

http://www.d-a-l.com/hardware-scan.php

OS Information:
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OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition|C:\WINDOWS|\Device\Harddisk0\Partition1
Service Pack 2.0
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS


Processor:
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Current Clock Speed 2009
Description x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1
Manufacturer AuthenticAMD
Name AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+

Current Clock Speed 2009
Description x86 Family 15 Model 43 Stepping 1
Manufacturer AuthenticAMD
Name AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+


Memory (RAM):
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Bank Label BANK0
Capacity 1073741824

Bank Label BANK1
Capacity 1073741824

Bank Label BANK2
Capacity 1073741824

Bank Label BANK3
Capacity 1073741824

Total Memory Deteced in Hardware: ~4096 MB
Memory Reported to Operating System: 3039MB

Disk Drives:
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Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model SAMSUNG SP2504C
Media Type Fixed hard disk media
Size 250056737280 (~233 GB)
Number of Partitions 1


Installed Printers:
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Motherboard:
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Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC.
Model
Name Base Board
Part Number
Product A8N32-SLI-Deluxe
Serial Number MB-1234567890
Version Rev 1.xx


BIOS:
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Manufacturer American Megatrends Inc.
Name BIOS Date: 01/02/06 09:32:54 Ver: 08.00.12
Release Date 20060102000000.000000+000
Version A M I - 1000602


Monitor:
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Description Plug and Play Monitor
Name Plug and Play Monitor
Screen Height 480
Screen Width 640


Keyboard:
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Description USB Human Interface Device


Pointing Device:
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Manufacturer Microsoft
Name HID-compliant mouse


Sound Card:
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Manufacturer Realtek
Description Realtek AC'97 Audio
Device ID PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0059&SUBSYS_812A1043&REV_A2\3&267 A616A&0&68


Video Card:
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Adapter Compatibility NVIDIA
Adapter RAM 134217728
Description NVIDIA GeForce 6200 TurboCache(TM)
Installed Display Drivers nv4_disp.dll
Driver Version 6.14.10.8421
Driver Date 3/9/2006 10:29:00 PM
Video Mode Description 640 x 480 x 4294967296 colors


DirectX Installation:
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Version 6.03.01.0148


Modem:
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Network Adapters:
PropertyValue
Description NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport
Description Packet Scheduler Miniport
Description Marvell Yukon 88E8053 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller - Packet Scheduler Miniport
Description Packet Scheduler Miniport

External Ports:
PropertyValue
External Reference Designator PS2Mouse
External Reference Designator Keyboard
External Reference Designator USB1
External Reference Designator USB2
External Reference Designator USB3
External Reference Designator USB4
External Reference Designator LPT 1
External Reference Designator COM A
External Reference Designator Audio Mic In
External Reference Designator Audio Line In
External Reference Designator Audio Line Out
External Reference Designator LAN
External Reference Designator LAN
External Reference Designator
External Reference Designator
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Expansion Slots:
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Slot Designation PCIEX1_16
Slot Designation PCIEX2_16
Slot Designation PCIEX3_4
Slot Designation PCI4
Slot Designation PCI5
Slot Designation PCI6



(I'm still waiting for these guys to get my final video cards I'll be using when it's all finished (dual nvidia 7900GT SLI video cards)
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