If it takes that long, 1st impression is that it's over heating.. Make sure
there's plenty of ventilation around the back and power supply, also if
you're handy, take the cover off and make sure the chip fan is running.
Other thing I can think of is faulty ram.  Make sure maybe all power saving
settings are off and also see that all the drivers are up to date especially
the video.


Dave Jones
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Floyd Carlyle" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002 7:08 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] hardware or software?


> hi my name is floyd carlyle my email is [log in to unmask] i have this
> computer which belongs to a friend he has taken it to various shops
> to get it worked on to no availe, it starts and run for 2 to 3 hrs
> it than freezes up no keyboard no mouse it has windows me with 64mb
> ram which before a freeze showed 74% resourses available but frose anyway
> if you unplug it, and replug it, it will start and run 2 to 3 hrs again,
> this is fusstrating and annoying. does any one know what is the deal
> its a compaq persario mini tower with dvd,and cdrw.help if you can
> thanks in advance.

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