My system is highly unstable

[Franz316]

This is getting really annoying. My computer is randomly locking up now. It has just started happening with in the last 4 weeks. It mostly happens in internet explorer but it make video editing almost impossible. I have tried everything I know to fix it from updating the bios to reinstalling windows 98. Please help me. here are my specs.

Athlon T-bird 800
A7V(1004c)
128mb ram
20gig 7200 hard drive
asus geforce 2 64mb
3com eithernet card
sblive value
TV wonder
linksys phoneline card

 

[Andrew99]

This problem is highly annoying. There is no sure way that I know to solve it...

The best way I know is to remove non-essential hardware and see if it still crashes. If it doesn't add each hardware component back one at a time. It could be a loose PCI card, corrupt hard drive, corrupt memory, corrupt operating system, virus, resource conflict, or even a firmware problem. Make your system as simple as possible by removing all non-essential components... Then as you build it back up you can narrow the problem down.

 

[Mem]

Franz316,this sounds like a hardware problem,mine started doing the same thing last October anyway in my case it turned out to be a T-bird 900mhz going faulty,yours may be anything hardware wise, it took me 3 weeks to solve the problem,& the only way I did that was to take to a repair shop where I purchased the parts from for a full diagnostic checkup,lucky for me I had a new CPU & the motherboard(changed as a precaution) installed for no cost.

 

[virusag13]

I had this problem with an old PII 450. After checking all the hardware, my memory and all sorts of crap, I found out my ps was either 1)failing 2) didn't supply sufficient power. Either way a 300w PS fixed it.

 

[Franz316]

Thanks alot guys for the help.
I think it might be a IRQ problem so I am gonna try to swith the sound card and the Linksys one because I heard about a glitch with the TV Wonder being on the same IRQ as a network card causes problems.

 

[jamesbond007]

Yo. I have pretty much the same setup. (A7V, 1Ghz TBird, 256MB PC133 SDRAM...etc) Anyhoo, update your BIOS to 1005+. I currently use the 1005a BIOS, and man, that sure did the trick for me. I haven't rebooted Win98SE in over 8 days now. Not one dang crash. I use the machine hardcore, too. I have thus far, in this bootup, created webpages with Dreamweaver, used IE5.5 countless times, played Quake 3 Arena till my fingers hurt, and listen to Winamp 24/7. All I can say is update your system BIOS. It's very simple and is the best solution thus far. I was shipped the 1.02 board revision along with BIOS 1004d. If you read a lot, it seems as if 1004x was a bad round of BIOSes for Asus. 1005a is supreme, but have not yet ran 1005b. Both 1005x BIOSes are final and ready to go. Be sure you go back and configure your BIOS again after you flash it. Good luck to you!

 

[jamesbond007]

Forgot the link
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/kt133/a7v/
From there, you can choose the BIOS you want to try.

 

[cmaMath13]

Yeah, I have had good luck with BIOS 1005A, too.