lock ups

[Jay Vought]

It seems since I just installed SP1 Sat, that my puter
keeps locking up everything freezes can't even do a soft
boot. Have to shut off system then restart everything
will work fine for approximitley 10-15 min then the
system will freeze. This didn't do this till I installed
SP1 ????? Thats the only thing i can think of.


Please need help
Thank You
Jay

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP]

It seems since I just installed SP1 Sat, that my puter
keeps locking up everything freezes can't even do a soft
boot. Have to shut off system then restart everything
will work fine for approximitley 10-15 min then the
system will freeze. This didn't do this till I installed
SP1 ????? Thats the only thing i can think of.


Please need help
Thank You
Jay

A. See
Dealing with Unwanted Spyware, Parasites, Toolbars and Search Engines
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/unwanted.htm

B. You may need new video drivers. Check the site for your video board
manufacturer. Meanwhile you can do the following:
1. Use the default mouse pointers.
2. Turn down your color depth. (Right click the desktop and choose
Properties | Appearance | Settings) Some people find that increasing color
depth helps.
3. Turn down your graphics hardware acceleration. (For Win 98, Start |
Settings | Control Panel | System | Performance | Graphics button) You will
see little, if any, performance degradation.
4. Turn off your desktop wallpaper.

If these make the problem go away you need new video drivers.

If you have an ATI video board, try adding these lines to System.ini

[display]
DevBMP=0 <--- That's a zero

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