I have a system I’ve built up containing the following:
700Mhz AMD Athlon (skt A) Processor
FIC AZ11 Motherboard
SpecTek 128Mb PC133 SDRAM
Diamond Stealth III S540 32Mb 4xAGP Graphics Card
Seagate ST320423A 20.4Gb UltraATA\66 Hard Drive
Acer CD650P 50x CDROM Drive
3.5″ 1.44Mb floppy drive
Window 98 2nd Edition OS
Several programs (including the defrag tool) causes the CPU usage to max out at 100% and stay maxed (observed this with System Monitor). After about 30 seconds the computer freezes up completely and will not unfreeze. No matter how long you let it sit there. Keyboard nor the mouse will respond. The only solution is to reset or turn the power off. It also freezes several times during bootup. I’ve done a complete software rebuild and still have the same problem, even with nothing but the OS loaded on the computer. I’ve tried a generic VGA PCI graphics card with no luck. I’m not over clocking or anything beyond the normal operating specs. I’ve even put Norton Utilities on and CrashGuard doesn’t even help. I’m 100% positive that it is not a software problem. Any suggestions?