In a message dated 4/12/2001 5:06:03 PM Central Daylight Time,
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> I am having problems with my computer freezing but not all the time.
> A few nights ago it froze about 10 times in a 2 hour period.
> Yesterday it froze once. I cannot use Control-Alt-Delete to restart
> the computer. I must manually shut down and restart the computer.
>
> This is a Intel 600e on a Bait BE6-2 motherboard with 128 mb a ram.
> Plenty of free space with two hard drives for a total of about 40
> gig. These drives are ATA 66 & 7200 RPM. Video card is an ATI Rage
> Expert 2000. Mouse is a USB optical. Computer has two different
> Ethernet cards. One for my cable connection and the other for my
> home network. It has an Adaptec SCSI card and a Creative Labs
> sound card. Power supply is a 300 watt power supply.
>
> The computer freezes in all different programs (IE, Outlook Express,
> Scandisk, System Information Tools, desktop, etc. ) It even
> sometimes freezes at startup up just after it finishes loading
> Windows.
>
> I have turned off all the programs in System Configuration Utility
> that I can. Normally I run Zone Alarm, McAfee VirusScan and Belkin
> Sentry for my UPS and GoBack. Even with all these programs turned
> off I still get freezes. I have installed the latest video driver
> and also the latest mouse driver. I have checked the inside of the
> computer to see that all the cards and the memory are firmly seated.
> Also checked to make sure all the fans were running. (The CPU fan
> is just a few months old.) In Bios, temperatures of the CPU are
> well below the danger point.
>
> I did a thorough scan disk of all the drives, defragged all the
> drives and checked for viruses with the latest McAfee dats. I have
> deleted all my cookies and temp files.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas to what could be causing the freeze ups?
>
> Adele Sapilewski
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What OS are you running? You have a lot going on. Do you have all the
program, device driver, chip set, and MOBO BIOS updates? What was the last
thing you added? Two NIC cards can cause problems. So can sound cards. Some
video drivers require the complete uninstall of the old drivers first. I had
similar problems, and finally updated to Windows 2000 Pro. Wiped the hard
drive clean and reinstalled everything, lots of work, but now I know it was
worth it. I also learned a lot. It may be over kill for a home computer, but
it is rock solid. I haven't had to reboot in over 2 months! ( I have rebooted
because of adding/deleting hardware, software, etc.) If you decide to upgrade
to Win2k, make sure all your hardware and programs will work w/Win2k. Visit
MS web site and check the HCL list (hardware compatibility list). I know you
needed more to do. Good Luck! Wish I could help more.
Blake Renslow
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