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Calling all Athalon Xtreme GEEKS.

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by jhackett 1 view

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Problem: After 8-12 hours of screen saver activity (eg:overnight) Windows 98 underwater screensaver starts freezing for around 1 second every 5 seconds. My windows clock will lose about 40 min during this time And 3d game locks up. Clock resets on reboot. I have replaced everything except the pwrsupply, HDD, keyboard and mouse . Tried 3 differnt video cards,2 MOBs, 2 processors.RAM and freshbuilt it twice with 98. Installed cooling fans according to AMD and tempranges are at 40. Please help.
Biostar M7VKD 100/133 MO.NVIDIA 3dforceB32 plus. Simple 133sdram 2x128. Athalon 1.2 266FSB. WD 30 gig ata 100 with ata 66 cables.
300 watt Pwrsupply.

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by maddiuex

I had the same problem, I did not have the Athlon. Turned out to be the mouse. as you, I switched out everything. I dont know if this helps but here is what I did.

Edit the registry at your on risk.

Select Hkey_Local_machine.
Select Enum
Do a cearch for the mouse and when you find it Delete the folder, Reboot.

Hope this helps.

by phildavis516

What other programs are running when you boot? Several programs that monitor internet usage can cause problems like this.
If you are using any monitoring sofware try disabling it's automatic start up and see if this helps.

by espet

You are displaying all the classic signs of overheating. I read what you said about having cooling fans, but overheating would be my guess. I have experienced this many times in that class of a machine, especially the Athlons.

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