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Why am I getting this hang in Internet Explorer 5.5?

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Sporko

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After surfing for maybe an hour or so, IE 5.5 will hang on me. My mouse moves but doesn't do anything. Ctrl-alt-del gives me a blue screen saying system is busy. Press a key and I get another blue screen saying the system is busy or has become unstable. I press a key and (sometimes) get the menu of running progs. I select end task for the window it hung in. If the running program menu doesn't show up I have to reboot with the reset switch (the main power switch won't work when this happens) This puts me back on the desktop working again.

Does anyone know what's causing this? I just did a fresh install of windows after a format 2 days ago.
 
Only other programs running are systray and the Asus utility for the video card. I just did a reformat a couple days ago and the only software I've loaded is IE 5.5, Outlook Express and SiSoft Sandra 2001. My old set-up was bloated with 9GB of crap and I had no problems. Very frustrating that this shows up now on a fresh install.
 
Could be lack of the correct drivers. Did you install the VIA drivers for your motherboard? I've had the exact problem when I didn't have my Highpoint drivers installed properly. Also make sure you don't have an IRQ conflict, like, with your video card.
 
This is really starting to bug me! I removed my soundcard, did a reformat, installed windows98 which loads IE 4.0, installed the lastest Nvidia drivers, installed the latest Via 4-in-1 drivers, and Internet Explorer STILL hangs! I can only surf for 10-15 minutes now before it stops working.

I have my bios on fail-safe defaults, I just checked my cpu temp in bios - it's 28C so it's not heat. I don't have anything overclocked. What else can I check? I used all the same components in my old 440BX system and never had this happen in two years. Could this Via chipset just not work with this program? If so, you'd think there would be more about it on the boards.

I'm stumped. 😕
 
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