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System Freezing Part 2

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This is an update to a thread I posted recently :

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=769604


I tried booting into DOS and everything worked fine with no freezeup. By the way I have a dual-boot with 1-Win98SE and 2-WinXP Home. Just wondering, would this indicate that there is likely no hardware problem and could it be an MBR/bootloader problem I'm dealing with. Thanks.
 
go to www.memtest.org and get memtest86+. Make the bootfloppy and run it for at least 1 full pass. It sounds like memory problems to me.

It is also possible your power supply is going bad. When mine went out, it would just reboot at random intervals, sometimes even when the bios was doing the system check before the OS boots up.

I doubt the bootloader can cause any lockups after you've been in the OS for 10 minutes.
 
Just ran memtest and it shows that thw memory is perfectly fine. Any other ideas on what could be causing this? Thanks.
 
Does it freeze in both Win98 and XP? What are you doing on the computer when it freezes?
 
Try running Prime95 in both OS'es or any other cpu stressing benchmark. Also boot into safe mode and in both OS'es run msconfig and try to turn off the extraneous junk that's in there. Lastly if XP is giving you the problems, you can try to check the processes and see if it' s a particular process that is spiking your cpu. Do you have all the device drivers loaded correctly and at what point within each OS does it begin to freeze?
 
uh oh..after letting memtest run more thoroughly it appears that it is the memory. 6 passes/4 errors.
 
I just got around to replacing the memory and I still have the same problem. Any idea on what I should investigate next? Thanks
 
Well, Your memory subsystem is only as good as its weakest link. Below are my guesses as to what is occuring.

1. The computer may be overheating
2. Memory timings may be too aggressive
3. Motherboard is flaky
4. CPU is overheating
 
Thanks DocSavage. I tried a few things you mentioned but I'm limited in that I don't have much extra equipment to test with. I replaced the HSF to no avail, then dropped down my memory settings in BIOS, and nothing seemed to work. I guess I might have to look into getting a new motherboard/CPU.
 
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