I have a computer that was bought at Hard drives northwest. its a 700mhz amd on a k7v motherboard. i run win98 and have 256 megs RAM and a 32 meg Geforce grafix card. I have taken to the dealer and had them look at it but i think that they got frustrated and just gave up. They did run diagnostics and put a new power supply in but it did not help when i got it back.

My problem is that my computer freezes. Everything just stops freezes. the keyboard and the mouse dont repond and i have to reboot because Cntrl-alt-del doesnt work. It freezes under all circumstances so i havent narrowed it down to a software problem. i have swapped th ram around to see if that may be the problem but it wasnt. and i have also uninstalled th sound card which wasnt the problem. i have run antivirus software and have come up clean, so it leads me to believe its a hard ware problem. I have also installed all the newest drivers and the 4 in 1 driver as well. The whole problem started after i insalled the game medal of honor allied assault. i also have the newest direct x.What else can i do?

Did you uninstall the game may be causing the problem?

If you're using win 2000, you might need to download the patch from microsoft. I had the same problem, and the patch fixed it. Sorry I don't have a link, a friend gave me the patch on a CD.

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I did uninstall the game and the problem still happened. it also freezes when i dont even play the game. I was told that it may also be an external component so i am now in the process of using another mouse and keyboard to see if the problem continues. I use windows 98.

Hello admiralEzis

First eliminate the possibility of a software or configuration problem.

1. If it never freezes in safe mode then the problem is probably in your Registry [or associated configuration files].
2. The simplest way of restoring a backup of a good Registry is to boot to "Command Prompt only" [hit F8 and go to the Startup Menu]. You have probably left it too long because it has probably been backing up bad registries for some time past? You've also changed your software since they were taken and Registry, Software and Hardware should all match.
3. If you have a backup system in use; re-format your drive and restore a good backup. This will take you back to when the software and configuration matched and was good [and matched the hardware also]. Your hardware must be now what it was then [at least all hardware which matches controlling software. Your PSU is not controlled by matching software]!
4. If you don't have a backup:
Re-format your HDD and re-build your software by re-installing your Operating System and your Applications and Drivers etc. With practise it becomes quite simple if time consuming.

5. Before you do the above it would be wise to look around for problems in "msconfig.exe" [the configuration utility](type "msconfig" in "Start>Run"). Look particularly in the "Startup" tab for multiple copies of Prog's running [except "LoadPowerProfile"]. Untick any multiples you think should not be there.
6. Use whichever method is easiest in your circumstances.