PC Freezing Without any reason! HELP!

[atfmaniac]

This problem started happening a couple of days ago. My system randomly freezes. Totally freezes except i can use my mouse and i can use ctrl + alt + delete to reboot the system(the taskmanager does not come up)

My system specs are..

Asus P4T mobo
p4 1.4 Gig
256mb pc800 rdram
creative labs annihilater geforce 2 mx 32mb
2 *20gb hd's
Aureal Vortex 2 Soundcard
Sohoware 10/100 network card.

Win98
DirectX8.0a

I reformatted yesterday but the system still crashes

Oh and outlook express is taking forever to load and when filling forms in IE each time i fill a field and move to the next it IE pauses for a few seconds

PLEASE PLEEASE HELP ME!

 

[MacaroneePenguin]

Try installing Win98SE

 

[atfmaniac]

ive tried WIN98SE and WINME
both have same problem

Someone said it might be a ram problem. Can i somehow diagnose the ram and see if its erroneous ? Is there any software that will let me do that ? Other then buying new ram to test it out that is.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Here's a great ram tester Link.

 

[DJFuji]

try checking for heat problems, and then test your ram with memtest....free download at www.memtest86.com Be careful, though, because memtest takes FOREVER. If you run full tests, it takes over a day, at least on my system. VERY comprehensive, though