[mbynack]

My company has been having a lot of problems with office XP, especially Word. It tends to lock up for no reason. Microsoft tech service helped us through it, but it took over a 20 hours of phone calls and almost six months to get it cleared up.

Your problem sounds like it might be either heat related or a problem with the energy saving settings. I had to install a processor fan and two auxiliary case fans on my system and I have to keep the AC and a ceiling fan running in my office. These problems usually occur when I'm doing something more resource intensive than wordprocessing, though.

Try turning off the energy settings, too.

[eno_]

My company has been having a lot of problems with office XP, especially Word.

Unlike the OS, Office had massive internal changes for the XP version. Windows XP is mostly Win2k with fixes, multimedia, and a prettier (some think so, anyway) user interface. Office screws up a lot more than Windows, but if you go to Microsoft's Office Update site you can get all the latest patches - that should do some good.