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Windows 98 lock up?

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by doc7213

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I am in an office with 30 new Dell Dimension pIII's. (1) Three of them lock up over night every night. I have taken them off the network, taken the screen savers off, redone TCP/IP. The mouse still works, but the desktop is locked. (2)When the PC is rebooted, I have trouble connecting to the internet and email. (Through the network) 10 minutes pass and the connection is fine.
All three PC's are on different circuits. I have moved them from one port to another switched them with other PC's, etc. The problem is within the PC's, but what I'm not sure.

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by nsceml

On the lockups, Check the cooling of the CPU. Make sure the fan is not shutting off when the computer suspends at night. As to the internet connection I really dont have enough info to make even a guess, can you ping other computers on your network,can you ping your default gateway, can you ping your email server. are you using DHCP?, how fast is it set to update? Are you using more than 1 router?, How fast are your routing tables updating?

by phy

Are you using Power Management of any kind? Try disabling APM (ACPI?) in BIOS and/or through Control Panel. Are your system BIOS all same level - have you reflashed them?

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