Sounds like an overheating problem to me, although on three computers that is a bit suspicious. Check your fans. Are all three built exactly the same, mobo, etc., included?? >Hi, >Using an AMD K6-2 333 CPU,Win 98,64Ram,the following is happening on three >machines, when they are left not in use for a little while ,each one >"crashes",i.e., the screen becomes grey and a flashing cursor appears in the >top left hand corner. The machines will not restart until Ctrl,Alt and Del >are pressed,otherwise the desktop remains the same.can this have something >to do with Win 98 or is it a hardware problem most likely?Your help would be >much appreciated, >TIA, >Tony. >PS It is not Power Management, which has already been tried. >Tony > The PCSOFT web site always needs good submissions. If you would like to contribute to the website, send any software tech tips or software reviews to: [log in to unmask]