Could be overheat problem. When it happens again, open the case and feel the
temp of CPU fan, video card and harddisk ... , if one of them get too hot,
you need get extra cooling. My closest guess is video card overheating.

Jun Qian

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Bogert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2001 1:44 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Frequent intermmitent freezes or lockups--Win98SE


> This ons got me baffled--I'm running Win98se with a new motherboard
equipped with Celeron 533mhz,370 socket--Rage II PCI video card--128mb
sdram--13.6ghz HD--VIA Apollo Pro 133A-694x chipset--Award 2000 bios. My
problem is that after I boot-up and after about 1 hour the motion on my
screensaver as well as any games I may be playing or any other applications
I may be using ALL are momentarily (2 to 4 seconds)freezing up and then
continuing on for another few seconds and then freezing up again on and on
and on. After about 5 hours of this action the machine locks up, requiring a
restart. I know I'm not overdriving the video card (using 16 bit setup). I
can't seem to solve this problem.

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