System Locks up

[Talamaine]

I am having a similar problem to Psychronic's. I am working on a Gateway that I have now removed all of the PCI and ISA cards, switched out the powersupply, disconnected devices, swapped out the hard drive, and ribbon cables. Swapped the Video card with another one and different type.

I have flashed the bios and installed from a formated drive win98se three times, plus another on the swapped drive. Everytime the system locks up. The system especially locks up when you go to My computer or Windows Explorer.

Could it be the motherboard?


The system is a
Pentium 133
2 GB Western Digital Hard Drive
ATI Rage PCI
50X CD-ROM
That is all that is installed right now.

[mjc]

Can you boot into Safe Mode? Does it lock in Safe Mode?

If it doesn't lock up on safe mode then most likely it is a driver problem...also when in normal mode bring up the systems properties box (if you can get it without it locking up) and go to performance and see what it says...

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[ddogp]

mjc if he could get to safemode would you use msconfig to tell what dtiver it was?

[Talamaine]

Thanks I will try that tomarrow.

[danleff]

Hi;

My bet is on the video drivers. I recently switched a video card I was using for another - same thing = would lock-up when trying to access My Computer or Explorer. In my case, Matrox Power Desk was installed and I booted to safe mode, removed the drivers and program references (as well as registry references), re-booted and let windows intstall it's driver. Problem solved. When swapping components, you are likely to run into a snag, unless you remove the old drivers/references, let windows pick their drivers, then go from there.

On the other hand, the newer CD rom drives can draw power. Hope the power supply is a good one... how many watts? Even in an AT machine.

Finally, you may need to do a bios update for the bios to recognize a 50X CD ROM -I know that many bios updates address this specific problem recognizing newer CD ROM''s.

[ziba-june]

This is a crazy idea, but since you are changing everything then why don't you check your floppy drive. My computer and Window Explorer check the floppy dirve. right?