Strange Probelm - Please Read

[pac1085]

I've been having this very strange problem lately. The problem is, the system locks all the time. Heres usualy what happens. I boot up the system, everything works fine. Im just talking to people on AIM, ICQ etc, and all the sudden, it just locks. No error messages or anything. I have to do ALT-CTRL-DEL 2 times, then a blue screen error comes up, I hit enter and everything works fine again(for a while). Then, a few minutes later, the system will lock the same exact way again, but I have to press ALT-CTRL-DEL 4 times to make the system reboot. This is really annoying me. It happened when I have an ABIT VT6X4 & Celeron 2 566, and now its happening on my ABIT KT7-RAID & Duron 600. Im using a new NIC card, new Sound Card, and a new Floppy Drive. Im using all of the latest drivers for everything, including the VIA 4-in-1's. The only hardware that could be causing the problem is:
Hard Drive: 15GB IBM75GXP (7200RPM, U/ATA100)
Video Card: Some old Cirrus Logic 1MB that im using
temporarily.
CD-Rom Drive: 52x Creative Labs
CD-RW Drive: Ricoh MP6200A
Ram: 64MB Crucial PC-133 Cas 3

I never used to have this problem, so I dont know whats causing it. If anyone has experenced this, or knows how to fix it, and can help me, I would appreciate it.

 

[Souka]

It's happening on two different systems?
If so, what software have you loaded on both machines since problem occured.....AIM? ICQ?


Also, what error is showing in the BSOD?

 

[pac1085]

I never wrote down the error, and I just reinstalled windows and it hasnt happened yet. Most of the time it happens when im listeing to mp3s in winamp. I doubt its sound card related, because I used 3 different sound cards and they all did the same thing w/latest drives. This is 1 system, i used to have the vt6x4/celeron, but i swapped out the cpu/mobo for a kt7-raid/duron. If i get the BSOD again, I will write down what it says, and post it up here. And sometimes in AIM, as soon as somone sends me a message, it completely locks, and i have to reboot it.

 

[Grminalac]

I had serious problems with ICQ locking my system up hard. It happened all the time, but stopped when i upgraded to ICQ 2000b. You might want to try that out. As for AIM I am not sure, only think i can guess is that both programs could be doing the same thing that your machine doesn't like. I am running a VIA chipset too. I have a hunch that platform had problems with ICQ 2000a and 99a as well.

 

[ColdTech]

After Just Spending 2 weeks tracking down my own frezze ghost I just wanted to ask... Are you Using dx7.0a.... 2 weeks trying to figure out what was screwing with me I fineally tracked it down to dx7.0a. & I have found a few other people with the same problem... & Mine was the same. Hell I could boot to win & let my system sit for 3 min & have it lock. Another thing is if its not already than set your video to 256 colors. that 1 meger may just be overheating... (BTW Why in the he!! would you put that in an athalon, At all even)

 

[Changlinn]

64 mb of ram and your trying to run, icq, aim, winamp, and how many IE/netscape, this is probably causing your crash. LOw on system resources. What os? what

 

[pac1085]

ahh...the POS 1 meg video card is in my system because i broke my geforce card...and this is the only card ive got to use until i can afford another geforce. I'm running Windows ME, so that has dx7.0 or 7.1 or something built into it. I only have 64 mb ram, so windows reports that i only have 65% of resources free...maybe that is causing the problem.