uTorrent freezes my comp!

[Druss]

I recently had my mobo changed because the old one was faulty, but still under guarantee. uTorrent always worked fine. I've now got a P4M900T-M2 mobo and every time I install uTorrent v1.77 my comp freezes - sometimes for a second or two (and this will happen repeatedly) and sometimes it's a big freeze requiring a reboot.

I've had a look at the faq and I don't use avast. In fact, the programs I use are the same now as they were before I changed mobo.

Help please.

[jewelisheaven]

Could be network card drivers. Is this one onboard? Was the old one onboard? Are you trying to do wireless? IS it an RALink product?

[Druss]

I'm using an O2 router connected via ethernet port on mobo. Old one was onboard as is the new one.

On board lan is VIA® VT6103L 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet PHY.

[Firon]

Are your IDE/SATA controllers set to UDMA6?

[Druss]

i'm using a different hard drive with a fresh install of xp and everything's fine so I think it's my other hard drive. I suspected utorrent because the freezing started when I installed uTorrent. Thanks for all the help and will be back if the problems come back.

Cheers all.

[GTHK]

Did you check the controllers though? Make sure they are NOT PIO, a fresh install of Windows can start with that mode by default. Controllers are listed in the device manager (Windows Key + Pause/Break > Hardware tab > Device Manager).