I have chronic eee problems.

I have an eee 1005HA and am having some problems. I upgraded the RAM from 1GB to 2GB (of the same speed at 800Mhz [faster timings, though]) and also the standard Hitachi 160GB 5400rpm HDD to a WD 320GB 7200rpm HDD. I cloned the drive with Acronis and everything worked wonderfully - until I tried to make it work.

I am about to take the upgraded (OCZ) ram and replace it with the original (ASint) ram. I don't think this is the problem, but as someone who fixes their friends/family's computers, I am very aware that crap like this happens. I will move on to the HDD next.

Here's what happens: I restored the HDD back to its original factory state once the new drive/ddr is in and everything goes great; I uninstall the bloatware, install (basic, freeware) apps, install windows updates and copy over my files (restarting periodically, of course). Everything is fine and I'm happy. Then the next time I restart, the screen freezes while loading XP -- sort of like playing stoplight (start, go, start, go..) and never loads. I then have no choice but to reinstall.

I reinstall and everything is great again, and I do the same thing, except in stages I restart and observe, instead of doing lots at once. So I'm done, the comp sits for ~12 hours so I shut it down. When I started it up the same thing happened again. ?

I looked, and could not find much that mirrored my symptoms; but I thought I would ask before I test every piece of hardware/software on this comp: has anyone experienced anything similar to this on an eee or knows what it is?? Any ideas? Thanks,

IHateMayonnaise

 

could be the ram... does it heat up so bad....? try to touch it
i don't think its the hard drive
but i think it's a heat issue

 

ram isn't hot; replaced it a bit ago and so far everything's working. but it was before too...