Random Lock ups

[byteme_1997]

Have an AMD K6-II 500 on a Gigabyte GA-5AA M/B with 224 MB PC-100 Ram, WD 20.4 GB HDD, Creative 52X CD-R and Sony 4*8*32 CD-RW and Windows Me (I know, I know). Have been experiencing lockups at random but most specifically on the internet. The sceen will scramble or totally lock. The only way around it is to cold reboot. Then have to work through several errors until I reboot about 4-6 times. Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.

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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

[Percy]

Well, lucky for you there are only about ten bazillion different things that could be causing this. Some of the major things to check:
1) See what software is running in the background. I recommend shutting down everything except for systray, scanreg and since you mentioned having a CDRW, your burning software, probably Adaptec.

2) Possibly a virus? Have you made sure that you're running the latest .dat of what ever virus protection software you're using?

3)Device conflicts? Have you checked Device manager to see if anything is conflicting, and if anything important is sharing IRQs? On one of my home systems, I had to give the NIC its own IRQ or it got very cranky and wouldn't work half the time.

4) From what you said, describing your system, my first guess would be something to do with the video. Have you gotten the latest ME drivers for your video card? Best thing would be to get them for your other devices as well, too.

Best of luck,

Percy

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Perseverance in all matters.

[Shard92]

This may not apply to you but I noticed that some k6-ii have problems with PCI modems. I have had a couple of cases where similiar problems showed up on radically different machines. The only similiarities, Amd K6-II processors ( 450mhz and faster ) and PCI modem. Every case has been solved by replacing the PCI modem with an ISA one. I would recommend giving that a try and let us know how it works.


GLSmith

[thirdfey]

the ram is overkill so i would reduce it down to one stick, see if it is a bad stick of memory. eliminating the stuff running in the background is always a good way to go, get rid of any game demo's or beta software you have on the computer. definitely update your device drivers, what chipset is on the mainboard? ali or via, see if there are updates for which ever one you have. do you have any of the errors written down for us to see? can you duplicate the error on purpose? not like, oh there it goes again but like "i know everytime i go to this site this happens." all else fails start to simplify the hardware, pull the memory till there is only one stick, pull the soundcard, leave just the video and modem in.

[byteme_1997]

thank you I will try the suggestions and let you know the results. This has been very frustrating indeed.

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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese

[byteme_1997]

Have been using a Diamond 2260 PCI modem but have a Multi Tech 56k ISA I can swap in in its place.

[byteme_1997]

Thank you all for your help. It appeared to be a problem with the AMD and PCI modem. I switched to an ISA modem and all lock ups have diappeared. Again Ty

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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese