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Computer crashing, please help.

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LoStZ

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Hi, my computer has been crashing and when it does everything just freezes and all I hear is beeeeeeeep on the speakers. At first I thought it might've been the new ram I just put in. But then when I restarted, I noticed that it didn't recognize the master drive. So then I turned my CPU off for a few seconds then back on. Now the drive is recognized as normal. But so far, I've had a few crashes already and I don't know what could be wrong but maybe the hard drive. I recently put in 512mb of Mushkin Basic ram. I'm not overclocking anything BTW. I have a dual boot and things kept crashin in ME so I decided to try it over 2K. Things seemed pretty good for awhile, but then it crashed. I have no idea what could be wrong. If you have any suggestions, PLMK. I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.
 
im having some similar issues with a system that hasn't changed since like december. I have a 75gxp ibm ide drive and im assuming it is my drive cause it had damaged sectors last scandisk and the problem with all of a sudden the bios screen not seeing the drive thus not booting. Plus some pauses while in windows which I had never seen before and clicking noises! So either a bad hard drive or the motherboard?

I completed a scandisk and defrag a few weeks ago but all the problems didn't go away. but the ibm utility seems to pass without errors so I don't know what to do.
 
It could be a fautly or insufficient power supply which could in turn screw up some of your components. That may explain your strange hard drive behavior. Also, when you went with Win2k, did you do a clean install? I've found that's always the best way especially if your system was getting strange errors. Mushkin RAM is good quality so I doubt the RAM is defective, but you did say that you recently put in 512MB of Mushkin Basic RAM. Was it one 512MB stick? The reason I ask is because some motherboards have problems with 512MB sticks of RAM; yours may be one of them.
 
No its 2 256mb sticks. And yes this install of Win2K was clean. Its on dual boot and I have rarely used it. I will do a full switch soon. But have been holdin off since theres too many things I have on ME and I'm too lazy to reinstall most of them and reconfig em all over again. So I've been using ME mostly. At first I kinda thought it might've been the 512mb limit that 98/ME didn't like. But then I crashed in Win2K so that factored out.
 
Ok I just got an error, Windows protection fault error (or something like that) You need to restart your computer. System halted.

Does anyone know what causes this?
 
Windows protection errors are caused by programs trying to occupy the same address at the same time. This can be caused by third party programs or windows registry being too large caused by programs left overs. Anyway, try the simple fix yet by running the Regclean program from MS, Easy Clean from Toni's Art and then Clean System by Kevin Solway. These three programs will ensure a clean registry. If the system still lock ups after these then you can start looking on your hardware side. Make sure the Bios is set to default Optimum Settings. Goodluck.😎
 
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