windows 2000 Lockups

[deseqer]

Been having my computer lockup during games, and now it locked up while watching a trailer for a movie I downloaded. When I say lockup I mean it locks up tight, no mouse response, no keyboard response, all I can do is hit the rest button.

I started noticing it about a month ago in Jedi Knight outcase, at that time I just thought that it was because of my cd rom drive. It was slowy dieing Was having troubles reading cds. Well I finally replaced the cd rom drive with a cd burner and now it seems that any game I play now I am garateed a lockup and now I has happened while watching a movie. I was thinking last week that it had to be a heat issue because it was pretty warm in the room that the computer is located. also because I had updated all of the drives, scandisk, defrag, AVscan, Directx reinstalled, windows update, unhook new cd burnner. check all cables. and now I am Out of idea. HELP

system specs
abit kr7a-133
AMD XP 1700+ never overclocked
MSI GEFORCE 2 MX-400 64mg
liteon cd Rewiter 32x12x40x
Hecules Gamesurround FortissimoII
Maxtor 60GB 7200RM ATA 133
Windows 2000 Pro
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[freddy]

check if u are using Udma cable (80 wire - colored end to board) ,,also check in control panel/admin tools/comp mgment/device mnger/ide that udma is enabled ,,if ness install service pack 2/3 and try that.

FtF

[deseqer]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by freddy:
<strong>check if u are using Udma cable (80 wire - colored end to board) ,,also check in control panel/admin tools/comp mgment/device mnger/ide that udma is enabled ,,if ness install service pack 2/3 and try that.

FtF</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">check the cable and I replaced the cable. also in device manager it checked out. Downloaded service pack 2 just now and installed it. still locking up.

This is starting to piss me off.

[The Rifleman]

Try pulling the video card and reseating it. The weather is getting hot and humid, sometimes connections come loose. Make sure the fan on the video card is running properly.

[cookin chef]

I just did a service with computer lockups. Turned out hd was failing.

Suggest you download powermax and put it on a bootable disk from <a href="http://www.maxtor.com" target="_blank">www.maxtor.com</a>

Do both quick and comprehensive tests.

Power supply????

What kind do you have and how many watts???

Virus???

Did you try the lastest via 4in 1 ver. 4.40 chipset patch from <a href="http://www.viaarena.com" target="_blank">www.viaarena.com</a>

Memory???

Software related issues???

Junky Abit motheroard??

[ilovetheusers]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by cookin chef:
<strong>Junky Abit motheroard??</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I have the same issue on my abit kt7a-raid. Might be something to that crappy mobo statement. I'll not be buying another of their boards. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

[deseqer]

Well I think I may have found my problem, Bad Sound card. Took out the sound card and installed a different one, and so far no lockups.

Thanks for the Ideas, they were very helpful.

[ilovetheusers]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by cookin chef:
<strong>I just did a service with computer lockups. Turned out hd was failing.

Suggest you download powermax and put it on a bootable disk from <a href="http://www.maxtor.com" target="_blank">www.maxtor.com</a>

Do both quick and comprehensive tests.

Power supply????

What kind do you have and how many watts???

Virus???

Did you try the lastest via 4in 1 ver. 4.40 chipset patch from <a href="http://www.viaarena.com" target="_blank">www.viaarena.com</a>

Memory???

Software related issues???

Junky Abit motheroard??</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'll be darn if I didn't run the utility from Maxtor and find my drive is going bad too! Thanks for the info bud!

[cookin chef]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by ilovetheusers:
<strong> </font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Junky Abit motheroard??</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'll be darn if I didn't run the utility from Maxtor and find my drive is going bad too! Thanks for the info bud![/QB]</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Glad to be of service!!!


I didn't even consider the soundcard.
Silly me.

may updated drivers for it might correct the lockup issues as well if it is reused again.

[HOGMAN]

Simple,

DITCH M$

Get Mandrake 8.2 or the luverly nice SUSE!!

Fixes all known MS problems!!

[freddy]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by HOGMAN:
<strong>Simple,

DITCH M$

Get Mandrake 8.2 or the luverly nice SUSE!!

Fixes all known MS problems!!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">great comment on a windows help page ,,,,please go to linux centre .

FtF