I have a friend who has a Gateway less than a year old running ME and
doing the same way.  Gateway told him to increase his memory from 64 to
256 which he did and now he has no problem with it freezing up.

Joe

On Sat, 3 Aug 2002 18:13:27 -0700 "Mark C. Barron"
<[log in to unmask]> writes:
> Hi David,
>
> I would tend to disagree with you on this one.
>
> I have a Pentium III 850Mhz laptop running Me without any of these
> problems.
> I also have a Pentium IV 3.0Ghz running Me without any of these
> problems.
>
>  From the sounds of things, I would first suspect a heat problem.
> Perhaps
> the motherboard is slightly
> cracked and when it heats up, the traces separate causing the
> lockup.  Or,
> the CPU just stops when
> it heats up.
>
> So, it's now back to Floyd to say what his system is comprised of
> and
> wether or not he can do any temperature monitoring.
>
>
> At 05:21 PM 8/3/2002, you wrote:
> >Hi Floyd, your problem is Windows ME.  When I was running it did
> the same to
> >me.  My best advise is to go back to Windows 98 se or for the best
> operating
> >is Windows XP
> >
> >Kind regards David Horley
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Floyd Carlyle" <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 10:08 AM
> >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.
> > >
>
> Mark C. Barron
>
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