My computer boots and runs fine until I leave it alone for
a minute or two.  Then it hangs up and requires a re-boot.
This happens independent of the program I am running -
even when not running anything.  It can happen at any
time.  The key is that I do not touch it for a short
while.

If I do a power-on (soft) reboot, the bios may not find
the boot drive.  If I power off and then power on, then
everything works fine.  It is as if the hard drive parks
when not used and then sticks in  parked position until
a hard boot.

Is this a known problem?  Virus?  etc?

System is WD 30 gig drive in ASUS  A7V133 mb
with AMD 1200Mhz cpu and running Windows ME.

Dean Kukral   [log in to unmask]

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