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System takes forever to respond sometimes?

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robisc

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I have just put together a new system and I have installed a lot of software so I don't know if I have a software or hardware problem, but this thing will hang at various times in Windows pretty regularly, the mouse cursor will move but nothing reponds and the HDD light is on like there are a lot of processes going on, after a few seconds (10 to 15) it will be OK, but it will sometimes completely lock up except the mouse movement, it won't respond to any keystrokes not even ctrl-alt-del so I have to manually reboot. When it doesn't seem to be plagued by this it is pretty fast. I have done the checked everything I know to check, viruscan, defrag, blah blah, I'm new to Athlon and am not real sure about all these Via 4 in 1 drivers miniport drivers and all, as far as I know I have installed them all. Any suggestions?

Specs
Asus K7M
Athlon 700
256 MB PC100 Siemens RAM
Maxtor 15GB 7200 RPM HDD
USR Modem
Netgear NIC
Aureal SQ2500 sound
Antec 300 watt PS
Hercules Geforce2 MX
Win98SE


 
Disable power management in BIOS and the OS....does this help?

Do you have any scheduling software running? Pause or disable these....does this help?

Do you have any monitoring software running? Memturbo, GoBack, RegMonitor, etc? Disable these....does this help?

Boot into MS_DOS (not a dos-shell) by pressing F8 before the Windows98 splash screen appears...choose "safe mode, command prompt only".......does this help? If so, it's probably a software issue, which includes the OS, drivers, and TSR's.


Also...need more detail....when does this happen, is there a pattern, whare are you or have you been doing on computer?

Luck...
 
I have disabled power management in the OS haven't check the BIOS yet, no scheduling or monitoring software running, haven't tried in safe mode yet and there doesn't seem to be a pattern for when this does this it is just sporadic.
 
Seeing as how you "loaded it up" with sofware, and it's still a new install and you prob dont have much info stored yet, why not start over but little at a time testing in between?
 
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