PC momentarily freezes no error messages

u just re-install Win98 se. That's enough

- Kadar -

The problem may be caused by startup program(s), hardware (HW), driver, or Windows.
Need to narrow it down.

Try the following steps. This will help you to troubleshoot. If you are willing, you will find the answer. If freezing continues, go to the next step.

1. Disable all startup programs.
If the freezing disappears, one or more startup programs are the cause.
Able (and disable) half the programs at a time to find the bad ones.

2. Update the video driver.

3. Remove all non-essential HW (all PCI cards, FD, Zip, CD-ROMs, 2nd HD, and so on).

3. Do a hard drive (HD) diagnostic test.
Your HD might have some bad sectors.
If there are bad sectors, backup data and replace the HD.

4. Clean install Windows in a spare or new HD.

5. Replace Power supply, RAM, video card, CPU, and motherboard one at a time.
If you do not have known good replacements, take your system to a computer store.

Hi

The low amount of system resources is probably why your computer momentarily freezes. Here are other items you can check:

Installed fonts use system resources. Minimize the number you keep installed.

Desktop icons take system resources. Clean up your desktop.

"My Documents", on the desktop, use system resources. Keep pictures and music files in another folder.

A corrupt swap file will degrade system resources. Remove the swap file, reboot to Safe Mode, defrag, reboot and then recreate the swap file. Keep it's maximum size double the size of your physical ram ( 512 ).

These are just some other areas you can look. I hope this helps.

I've seen the exact same problem with W98 PCs when IE6 and / or DirectX 9 is installed and the driver for the video card does not support either.

Start by seeing if you can download a new driver for your video card.
If you can, and it supports DirectX 9 that may fix all of your problems.

If the driver is more than 9 months old, or does not support DirectX 9, you may need to drop back to the version of DirectX that the video driver supports, and drop back to IE5.5 SP2.

I have had so many problems with IE6 on W98 PCs that I no longer install IE 6 on W98 boxes.

You can download the full version of IE 5.5 SP2 from the browser archive at www.evolt.org

Utilities to remove DirectX can be found at www.voodoofiles.com

Chas

Start, run, msconfig and go to the startup tab. Clean everything out of there that is unneeded. Resources can be taken up by "hidden" stuff starting up in there.

If HD is spinning, could be that fastfind/findfast is reindexing files on the HD, try disabling it.

Same with screen saver, power management.

Well you sure got a lot of answers, the answer about ie6 nad dirext x is good. I have also encounteredn this problem on many Win98 systems, long before ie6. I have not solved them all, but on some systems, I traced the problem to Norton Antivirus, either a bug or conflict with certain configs, or hardware, I dont know. Removing it solved my problem. To test this, I actually wiped a few systems clean, started over, without Norton, they ran no problem, and then with norton the problem would start, although not always right away. Sometimes, by re-installed norton, the problem would become less severe for some reason. Also, on WIn98 systems with this problem, I tell user to re-boot 1 or even 2 times per day. The problem seems to get worse the longer the system is running.

Probable cause for this can be the non working of processor fan. Check whether the fan is working or not as excessive heating of processor causes the system to freeze.

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