> I have a PC, less than a year old, with Windows 98 SE OS, Celoron
> processor and 160 MB memory (32 + 128;DIMM). The PC came with 32 the
> 128 was added later. Lately windows has been freezing or crashing. I
> re-formatted my hard drve and reloaded software. Same problems. I am
> using MS Office 2000 premium. No legacy software (no pac man).  Also,
> about 50% of the time the PC does not shut down clean.
> Any suggestions besides "Saving early and often"

        Well there are a large amount of reasons for a PC crashing regularly. The
#1 reason IMHO is heat, does the PC always crash after a set amount of time
or when doing something heavy? Have you checked the fan and heat sink? Try
putting thermal grease between the CPU and the heat sink. If none of that
works then it could be a hardware problem, diagnosing that can be rather
difficult. First try the system with only the 128MB stick, does the crashing
go away? If so it might be an incompatibility between the two sticks. After
this there are alot of possibilities, flaky power supply, flaky MB, too many
to list. TTYL

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