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AMD Duron 1.1 freezes up- HELP?

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by web_slider

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My computer is a 1.1 AMD Duron with 200MHz FSB, an Asus A7A266 M/B with the ALi M1647 chip, 512 MB SDRAM, Audigy soundcard, Powercolor GeForce2 Ti vid card with W/98se OS. Have downloaded all the drivers for operating in W/98se and still freezes up.What can I do to stop this other than getting a P4. No help from Asus or AMD. At a loss. Was told that W/XP will not have this prob...this true? Help please. Thanks!
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by web_slider

The Retailer tested the system and claims there to be no probs with hardware or software and claim the fault as to something I am doing

by drdmc

AMD makes fine processors. Asus makes fine motherboards. Win 98Se will run on just about any hardware that is available today. A lot of things can cause the system to stop. I suggest that you take it to a small computer repair/sales business and have it checked out.

by web_slider

Had the first computer in to compusmart and they replaced it. The second one they have given me was tested with W/XP and said it ran fine, but W/98 will not. Cannot afford to have someone else look at the system. Thanks

by mungchimp

?#1...Is this a solid Hardware freeze?
?#2...Does it freeze @ random times in the OS?

Suggestion:Boot into safe mode, enter the Control Panel, Choose system and Hardware Manager. Check all devices for duplicates. If duplicates found, take note and delete both of them, ignoring IRQ steering in the devices tab. Re-boot into windows allowing it to install devices w/ new drivers.

by compex

does it give you kernel errors. If so change your power supply

if it freezes without any message try a bigger colling fan. i like the cooler master. Use the bigger one like the DP5-6H11

by web_slider

There are no errors displayed. The system just stops and will return to norm in about 10 to 15 secs. Its like it gets to much information to process at once. Thanks

by web_slider

I do not get a message when it freezes up. It will freeze at random. The cursor/arrow will stop moving and the sound skips. it will stay this way for about 10 to 15 secs and then unfreeze. Used memory zipper plus and it shows the CPU usage bounce from 10% to 100% and never stays level. Sporadic. The OS freezes at random with no message. Should I get rid of the GeForce2 Ti card?

by dcosgrove

it sounds like you may have an errant program running in the background. Hit ctrl/alt/del and see whats running, gator, add companion, dss agent, office startup and fidfast are all processes that can cause problems like this. I have even seen programs that ask on installation if you would like them to disable findfast due to conflicts. I would have to say if you resume to normal operation after a time it is likely not hardware related. Durons are prone to high temperatures and good cooling solutions are vital. If you do upgrade, try an athalon first, I have never been a big fan of durons.

by goh weihan

Your problem seems to be related to the software instead of the hardware. Try to disable all the programs by going into safe mode in windows, and see whether the computer freezes. If it doesn't, then start up windows in normal mode and cross out the possible programs by using CTRL-ALT-DEL.

If your computer still freezes, that will be hardware problems, which can be a million possible problems.

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