Unusual lockup problem

[Bob Riley]

Hi guys, I am having a problem with lockups on a new Athlon 2400+ system I
built. It's a 256MB system running Win98. A few symptoms:

-Every time the monitor would go into low energy mode and then switch back
on, the system would lock up.
-About one out of every three times the system would lock upon bootup - this
was resolved after I removed the power control logic from getting loaded
upon boot.
-Occasionally, when using the computer, the thing will spontaneously lockup.
This is particularly curious because I ran 12 hrs of memory/cpu tests
yesterday without a problem - within 10 min of normal usage
(browsing/reading email) it locked up.

Any ideas on what could be causing this or areas to investigate?

Thanks,

Bob

 

[Shep©]

Hi guys, I am having a problem with lockups on a new Athlon 2400+ system I
built. It's a 256MB system running Win98. A few symptoms:

-Every time the monitor would go into low energy mode and then switch back
on, the system would lock up.
-About one out of every three times the system would lock upon bootup - this
was resolved after I removed the power control logic from getting loaded
upon boot.
-Occasionally, when using the computer, the thing will spontaneously lockup.
This is particularly curious because I ran 12 hrs of memory/cpu tests
yesterday without a problem - within 10 min of normal usage
(browsing/reading email) it locked up.

Any ideas on what could be causing this or areas to investigate?

Thanks,

Bob

Did you disable the APM in the BIOS?It can conflict with window's APM.
Also clean the registry,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/house.html
and trim the startup group,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/startup.html
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html

HTH



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[Eric Scofield]

Did you disable the APM in the BIOS?It can conflict with window's APM.

Also clean the registry,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/house.html
and trim the startup group,
http://www.geocities.com/sheppola/startup.html
http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_pages/startup_full.htm
http://www.3feetunder.com/krick/startup/list.html

You could go to "Start Menu" then "Run...." and type msconfig. Then go to
startup tab. On my system, I unchecked mostly everything but the virus
checker. This might help free up some of your system's resources. It could
help you, or maybe not.