System Locks please help!

[dlrsuperman]

Sometimes, usually when I play a game such as Diablo II or Counter-Strike, my computer freezes. My whole system locks up. There is no blue screen of death. The program and computer simply freezes, and I can't do anything. No keyboard or mouse command works. When I try to repeatedly type something, I hear clicking sounds from my computer. I am forced to completely power off my computer every time, not to mention that I have to HOLD the power button down, something I usually don't have to do. I can not, for the life of me, figure out why this is happening. I have run diagnostic programs like Sandra, they say everything is fine with my computer. I have an MSI-K7T pro2-a, 700 mhz duron (not overclocked either), a voodoo 3 2000 pci, windows 98 se, 256 megs of generic pc133 ram, and a quantum fireball AS ata 100 running at ATA 33 Hard drive. I have all of the latest drivers for my hardware, and all of the hardware works fine to my knowledge. I do think it could possibly be the generic stick of 256 megs PC133 ram I am using. Are there any good programs I could use to figure out what is causing these lockups? Could anyone please help me with this annoying problem? Thank you for your support.

 

[dlrsuperman]

btw, that stick of Pc133 ram was the "upgradeplanet.com deal" that everyone was going crazy over not too long ago.

 

[Andrew99]

Just to move this to the top, I'll opine my brief ideas ...

Since these are games, which utilise graphics, sound, and CPU more than other processes ... I would suspect those three areas about this problem .. An error like this definately sounds like a hardware issue rather than a windows configuration problem...

Try a different sound or video card if available ... it's not the solution, but it is the troubleshooting route. Your CPU could also be overheating... or your memory could be a bit unreliable... You can try a different SDRAM for this also, if available.

Probably not much help, but it pushes it back up to the top at any rate.

 

[cwolfie]

I was having same problem with voodoo3 card. try this link http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/howto/shirley2.htm or this one http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kds?$=main/howto/shirley3.htm