Have you checked into the possibility of a heat problem inside your case?
If your bios supports a temp control sensing function activate it and check
your cpu core temp. Also you might want to install a 2nd fan to circulate
the air more evenly inside your case which will also help cool down your
computer as well.
What you are describing sounds like overheating to me.

The other thing that comes to mind might be a dying power supply?
Hope this helps,

Barry Clark
MCSE


>From: "Hugh A. Gale" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
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>Subject: [PCBUILD] How to diagnose...
>Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 21:21:11 -0400
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>Hello:
>     My problem is, programs regularly crash and I now suspect a hardware
>problem.  Last year I installed Win98, and after repeated crashes, I backed
>off to Win95 thinking I had too many driver conflicts.  Recently I added a
>router, eliminating several of my drivers and the Win95 environment was so
>corrupted every boot caused a registry error.
>    After a clean reinstall of Win98 and experiencing repeated crashes (for
>example yesterday after a clean boot, Netscape crashed, then IE crashed
>then PaintShop Pro crashed), I am suspecting a hardware bug.  I am
>convinced this is not a Win98 issue since I run the same apps on my laptop
>without the crashes.
>
>Question:  I would be grateful to anyone who could provide suggestions on
>how to diagnose this problem.  I tried DIAG but get a runtime error and DR.
>Hardware reports hardware correctly but I am looking for a method to
>perform a comprehensive test against the hardware for bugs.  I am thinking
>I may have a seldom accessed processor or system board glich.
>
>I build my system and it consists of:
>Win 98 SE
>AMD K6-2 333
>MS 5169 MB
>128 MB RAm
>Matrox MGA-G200 AGP (with latest drivers)
>Fujitsu 13GB HD
>Panisonic CDRW
>
>Many thanks,
>Hugh Gale
>
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