[RESOLVED] SYSTEM FREEZES

[Randfoh]

Customer has a 300 mhz P2 BCM BX mother board with AGP Intel 740 Video and 128 mb ram and AWE64 sound card with the award bios.It freezes solid I have reinstalled the video drivers and system files.Customer reinstalled win98 with no luck it did have a trident video card before no effect on the problem any suggestions?

[johnvu]

I have a suggestion, although, I can't recall the last time a had a system just freeze solid.

Run the system in vga 16 color mode for a while. Use windows 98/95 generic display driver. See if that helps. At least you'll have an idea of whether or not it's a display driver issue.

[Bruce]

I have had this happen useing the intel 740 chipset boards and for no reason other than subtituing another agp card it would work the first time it was rebooted.using a pci card 4meg it worked every time. each time the agp was reinserted it would redetect and work the first time. End result was odd i removed it from device mgr and cold rebooted ,it redetected, and was fine afterwards.

[dilligaf_2u]

sounds like resources...drop the system into safemode if it runs here go to the device manager display adaptor\properties\resources and remove the check from "use automatic settings"