BT lockup drives me crazy!!!

[forumslog]

This problem is almost driving me crazy. After a fews minutes of downloading with BT software, the computer becomes freeze and lockup, I've tried almost every BT software, and tried all the "solutions" posted on the web, inclusing changing max peer connections, fixing winsock and lsp, disable firewall and antivirus, etc., but the problem still exists. It's strange that BT used to work very well on my old computer. This one is configured with AMD Athlon XP1600+, 256M DDR, WinXP, ZoneAlarm, Norton Antivirus.... I really appreciate someone would give me a solid solution.

[moneoa]

This problem is almost driving me crazy. After a fews minutes of downloading with BT software, the computer becomes freeze and lockup, I've tried almost every BT software, and tried all the "solutions" posted on the web, inclusing changing max peer connections, fixing winsock and lsp, disable firewall and antivirus, etc., but the problem still exists. It's strange that BT used to work very well on my old computer. This one is configured with AMD Athlon XP1600+, 256M DDR, WinXP, ZoneAlarm, Norton Antivirus.... I really appreciate someone would give me a solid solution.
Newer versions of zone alarm have been known to kill BT
not sure if this helps

[hawkburn]

Also, you might want to consider upgrading your RAM. 256mb seems a little low to be running XP, ZoneAlarm (which as moneoa said has issues, plus uses a fair amount of RAM) and Norton AV (resource hog) while running BT (which, depending on your program, uses high amounts of RAM (BitTornado uses 50 MB per windows for me ))

[Betamax]

Trash ZA 5, go back to ZA 4.5, or just install another Firewall (like Sygate). I had the exact same problem for over a week and I was ready to go on a kiling spree by the end of it.

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[forumslog]

Thanks so much guys, I'll give another try, but I don't think it's because of ZA or NA, I used to have the same versions and setting in the desktop, I admit the RAM of my laptop is a bit low for XP, but it's not the reason for BTs to lockup, I heard someone has 1G RAM but he still has the same problem.

[forumslog]

As Betamax suggested, I trashed ZA 5, installed Sygate, and the problem seemed to be solved, I've been using BT many hours, no freeze, no lockup, and the speed is always at the highest rate. (for me, around 300KB). Thanks.