That sounds like a well used computer. Have you tried cleaning the heat
sink under the fan on top of the CPU. If it's crudded up it will over heat
and crash.-Harry Mann


At 09:26 AM 8/22/00 +1000, you wrote:
>I have a friends computer (Pentium 100, 32 megram, 1 gig hdd) on
>which she is running win98 plus Word and Excel 2000! The thing
>crashes regularly about every ten to fifteen minutes. It just turns off
>and we go through scandisk and reboot. I have formatted the drive
>and reloaded win98 twice and it still does it. I did try win95a and
>the thing worked fine (is there a message there? LOL).Has anyone
>else had this problem? What do you think itcould be? I would
>appreciate any advice.
>
>Thanks
>Rick Thornton
>

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