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Win98se Freezes

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by thepiddler

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Win98se freezes and totaly stops responding. Looses time from CMOS when this happens. Longer CPU is on, longer the intervals of freezing. No IRQ conflicks, no error msgs.

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by maddiuex

seems to be circulation, I would have a look at your fans, Processor and Power supply.

by jctech

Even though all the fans seem to be spinning okay and not making noise, I would run DOS diagnostics on the processor when first started, then when the freeze problem starts, reboot and run the diags again. If the processor is failing due to overheating, the diag will indicate a failure. I recently had a pc in for service that was freezing in windows after being on a while. All fans seemed to be working fine, but diags showed problem with the processor after windows started freezing. After cooling down a while, the diag showed no problem. Replaced the cpu fan and no more problem. Apparently the fan was not spinning at full speed...just enough speed reduction to cause overheating of processor over time.

by thepiddler

I beleive I have solved the problem. There is a wireless NIC in the PC. & Onboard Audio card. Even though Device manger shows NO CONFLICTS, there is somewhere. I disabled the onboard audio, installed a PCI Audio card, and the PC hasnot stoped yet. I bad way around the problem, But it sure has saved me returning another PC and a LOST on MY TIME.

Thanks for all the remarks.

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