System lockup's

[tracgain]

Just put together a new system:
Asus A7V w/AMD 800
256 meg PC-133
Elsa Gladiac2 w/32meg
SBlive value
Maxtor 30 gig 7200 ATA-100
40x cd-rom
hp cd writer 9100
Viewsonic A70 monitor
Microsoft Explorer mouse
Linksys Ethernet card

My problem is my computer will freeze up, generally while using the internet, but occassionally while running apps. This problem was happening while running Win 98 S.E. and then I upgraded to Win ME. I have downloaded the latest driver's for all hardware listed. I have tried clean booting, and have been working with Microsoft Tech support for about a month now. I have recently wiped the harddrive clean and reinstalled windows ME. It did speed up things, but the lockups still occur. I am not talking about a bsod, my system will freeze, the mouse cursor is able to move around the screen, but the system will not respond. I have not had a lockup during game playing.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[SXMP]

hey, even though we have a little bit of a different situation, I was experiancing the same sort of thing. I would run my comp, it would post and load WinMe, but always about 10 minutes in or around there, I would freeze up completley. No errors, no blue screen, just a hard crash. I tried everything. I thought it might be my psu, but i was not willing to just run out and buy a new psu, the same with my ram. I envisioned since I'm runnin a tbird, that the ram just couldn't handle it. However I expected that I would get some sort of error if that happened. So upon advice from a friend, I loaded my fail-safe settings in my bios. Apparently in my 8kta2 the settings for agp_fastwrite and some like it do not want to work, or are not compatible. Right now I am in the proccess of determing and isolating exactly which settings are messed up, and have realized that loading the optimized settings makes my computer crash also. So if I find out any more info I will post it for you. Hope this helps.

 

[EvilKnevil]

you guys aren't alone...

check out this thread i started at the tech support forum...will keep you guys updated..i plan to run out tomorrow to a local computer shop to get me a 300W PSU.

here's the link: random freezes, hanging etc

 

[Coki]

Try increasing the AGP apparture size in the BIOS from 64megs to 256megs.