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by jeeper

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I am working on a PII 233. I have givin it a fresh load of windows 98, and windows 95. Once it has loaded, the mouse will ramdomly freeze the computer. I have no choice but to hard boot it. It will always freeze within 2-3 mins of the computer beingbooted up.

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by jeeper

I have changed out the video card, the hard drive, and from a ps2 to a serial mouse just to see if it would help.

by magliola

I have seen this problem with a NIC card
that was not configured properly. I suspect
you have some IRQ conflict and after 2 to 3
mins. the second devices attempts to load
,ie. the mouse, with same IRQ thereby causing
the lockup.

Good Luck,Mike

by bohicam1

It sounds to me like you don't have all your IRQ's available. Have you gone into the CMOS and checked them? Take a look in there and see what the settings are for IRQ's 3,4,10 and 12. If the puter has control of these or if they are disabled, enablethem...good luck!

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