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Jack R Payton <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 30 Mar 2001 00:34:31 -0500
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Al:

This may not help, as you could have some problem like CPU overheat, etc,
etc, but a couple things:

1. If it is overheating, there have been several ezine articles dealing
with the overheat situation.

2. As much as I love Peter Norton - from 15+ yrs ago Norton Commander (we
still use NC when shelling out to DOS) - we've had problems with
Symantec/Norton Systemworks when running as a TSR. Running it on a
when-needed basis, instead of running it in the background worked much
better for us.

3. If you determine that CPU overheat is NOT the problem, reformatting
and reinstalling the OS has cleared up a bunch of problems for us.

On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 14:21:30 -0500 Al Olry <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> My computer goes absolutely crazy at times.
> It will lockup, no matter what I am doing with it.
> Day before yesterday, I must have restarted it at least 50 times.
> After restart it might load Dos, Safe mode or windows.
> I think there was something like a time cycle involved.
> I tried to reload WIN 98SE and got nowhere with it.
> I suspected that heat might be the problem, so I turned it off
> for the night.  The next morning it worked fine for awhile and
> then went goofy again. Once again I turned it off for the night.
> The next morning I removed the side cover and left it off.
> It has worked far better since then, however it is not
> trouble free yet.
> Is it possible that heat is the problem and if so, what do I do
> about it?
> I have Norton System Works and it doesn't catch the problem.
>
> Al Olry
> [log in to unmask]

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