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Windows ME random lockups

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I have an
athlon thunderbird 1.2GB 266FSB
abit KT7A motherboard
256MB 133MH of Atlas Precision RAM
Quantium Fireball AS 30GB Hardrive
Creative GeForce2 GTS 32MB DDR Video Card AGP
Creative Soundblaster Live 5.1 XGAMER
3Com 56K hardware modem
DLink 530TX NIC
Creative Encore 12x w/ Dxr3 Decoder card
Plextor 12/10/32 CDRW EIDE

I have tried removing cards and moving cards to different PCI slots. I have also checked on newer drivers for my hardware, but I seem to have the latest already. But despite every thing I do it still just freezes every so often for no reason at all. I have noticed that a few min. after playing a DVD or playing a game it seems to lock up, but not all the time.

Thanks,
Corey

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by finnie

Hi I had a machine come into the shop with the same problem. It's your temperature setting in your bios for that mother board. More like a fail safe if stuff gets to hot. Knock the temperature up a bit in the bios and see how it runs. I put a cooling program on the clients machine to make sure it didn't go to crazy on the heat. But since then never heard from them. Hope it works for ya.

by jctech

Hi Corey. I'm having pretty much the same problem with a similar system I just built for a customer. This computer uses a TBird 800MHz processor on an ASUS A7V mainboard with 256MB PC133 RAM. I'm using an AOpen 32MB video card with NVIDIA Riva TNT2 chipset. I think I may have narrowed my problem down the the mouse...a MS Intellipoint IR mouse with USB interface. I have removed the mouse and drivers, and installed a Mitsumi PS2 scroll mouse in its place, and so far no more lockups. One possibility you might want to consider. I hope this helps. Good luck.

by paul majestic

Try removing all the cards except the video and see what happens. If the problem persists it might even be the processor and or RAM. Is the CPU fan properly seated and adequate? If those don't solve them problems then it might even be ME. I've dealt with numerous machines that have had problems with ME and when 98SE was installed on them there were none.

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