Windows Me-Lockups

Hello

What software have you installed? Some programs like Epson printer status monitor can cause the system to halt. You may have a dodgy application installed. Do you only have the neccessary network protocols installed? Have you checked your drives for viruses? Have you attempted to reinstall the OS?

The list can go on and on. When does it happen? Does the lockup only occur when using certain programs or does it seem to be indiscriminate? If you could provide some more details on when this happens, what you are doing when it locks up etc. it would be a great help.

Mark

Try to find a pattern. For example, I have a WinME box that crashes when I try to run Microsoft Age of Empires, with the sound card enabled. If I disable the sound card, the application runs fine (but the game sucks).

This took a lot of "try ONE thing, treboot and see if the problem returns or goes away". It took days to find the "problem". It still is not fixed, however.

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The long term fix for my problem ought to be updating the sound driver. Butthe PC manufacturer (IBM), the sound card mfgr. (Yamaha - it's a built-in to the MOBO card) and the sound card driver (Microsoft themselves) have not released an update that cures this "problem".

Hope you have better luck.

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