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by kimba1031 1 view

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I have 98SE operating system, and lately I have been experiencing freezes. It is not associated with any particular web site but at times it will freeze while at a site. Sometimes it will freeze while nothing is open but the screen saver is on. There is sound on my screen saver and one time the sound was reverbing....like it was frozen at that moment and the pc will not let me Ctrl+Alt+Delete or even shut power off at the tower. The only way to shut down is to unplug!! Does anybody have any suggestions as to what the problem is or could be?

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by dmiles

A number tf things to check,that may causing freezing
1)Turn off the screen saver for one
2)Disable Power Management thru the control panel
3)Check the anti-virus software
4)Check the video drivers for an updated driver
Click Start and in the Run box type MSCONFIG and from General Tab run diagnostic startup
then click on Startup tab and go through unchecking each box to see if this will clear up problem,this has to be done one at a time.
Hope this helps

by gmscne

The problem here is memory or virtual memory.
The disk space check and file delete can help with the virtual part. As far as the web sites, the pages are just too full of code for your PC to handle. When your screen saver comes on, windows is trying to copy everything in memory over to your hard drive, plus run the multimedia saver. It is trying to do too much with the resources it has.

by frec1

Clean out your Temporary Internet files directory, this has a limit set and it may have been reached the default limit is like 50MB.
Clean these out by going to "Tools", Internet Options and Delete the files

FREC

by frec1

Clean out your Temporary Internet files directory, this has a limit set and it may have been reached the default limit is like 50MB.
Clean these out by going to "Tools", Internet Options and Delete the files

FREC

by frec1

Clean out your Temporary Internet files directory, this has a limit set and it may have been reached the default limit is like 50MB.
Clean these out by going to "Tools", Internet Options and Delete the files

FREC

by kimba1031

All this information has helped me understand how to problem solve the real issue. But I am still having the freezes. I am recalling my photosuiteIII and Mirascan software freezing first. Then it led to the whole pc freezing I get distorted lines across the screen. Usually in MS Internet Explorer. Also in MSAccess. System resources are dropping. I keep getting an unknown device in USB device mngr, fixing it and having same problem again. When trying to run MiraScan for the scanner it cannot find it. Are all of these situations linked somehow, or am I dealing with accumulated issues?

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