Mike, try keeping all external devices kept off including speakers, printers, and scanners. As well remove the case cover so you can keep an eye on the internal situation during these proceedings. Does your computer have the Giga-Byte hardware monitor set up? Pay attention to the power supply and it's fan. If it is your power supply, and it sounds like it is then you have an inexpensive and simple upgrade, and unfortunately a very common problem today. A lot of newer systems are experiencing bad power supplies because the system builders choose all around great parts but pay no mind to using any case/power supply thats available. HTH
Peter Kaulback At 12:15 AM 1/21/2002 -0500, you wrote: >Got a real stumper folks. >My wife's computer.....PIII 667, 256 mb ram, gigabyte mother board, >Win98SE.... has just started freezing intermittently. When it locks up it >will usually continue to lock on the boot unless you power it off for a few >hours. This computer will even freeze in DOS & safe mode after about 5 mins. >I have replaced the video card & sound card to no avail. I've swapped the >memory chips (one then the other then both in different slots) still no >luck. >Anyone have any suggestions? >Thanks, >Mike ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
