Computer locking up

Symptoms: When I'm online, using IE my computer locks up after about 1 minute, on a consistent basis. It doesn't unfreeze, I have to power it off. Other apps can run ok. I have Win98SE.

History: Computer 1 year old. Had a virus about 6 mos ago, went out and bought virus protection and cleaned up the virus. Computer was working fine after that, just recently started locking up and no virus is detected at this moment. I have defragged the harddrive, and done some other minor cleanup that others have recommended but still the same problem.

This is what was happening before I did some system cleanup operations.

It used to work, but now it locks up all the time. Sometimes it just freezes and I need to restart, but sometimes it gives me codes. Here's what it says:

1. The Tahoma font is not present. To restore it, please run detect &
repair
from the help menu.

2. A fatal exception OE has occurred at 0177:BFF9DFFF. The current
application will be terminated.

3. Outlook caused a general protection fault in module GDI.EXE at
0026:00000eea.

4. Winword caused a general protection fault in module GDI.EXE at
001:000047al.


I then did some system cleanup stuff, and the following is what I get now.

I still get the computer to lock up on the internet all the time. It seems that I can only be on the web for a short time and then it locks. It normally just locks up or the screen just shuts down, but I sometimes get the following message:

OUT OF FREQUENCY
HF 18.1 KHz
VF

There's a little more to the message, but I couldn't copy it down fast enough.

Does this sound familiar?

VR,

Dude

 

This error is coming directly from the monitor. It is basicailly saying that it can not handle the freq that the video card is sending it.

Go into the Video properties-advanced and set to a lower Hertz.

I do not believe this to be your problem.

First do a little cleanup and then run the SFC

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Configure CleanMgr to max settings
Go to Start-Run and type

cleanmgr /sageset:1
The above need only be ran once (these settings will be remembered as the default until another sageset is ran).

It will present a menu select all except compress, then

Go to Start-Run and type

cleanmgr /sagerun:1
As long as /sageset above has been ran on this computer from now on the /sagerun is the only thing that needs to run. ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
Cleanups
These are for 95 98 ME only!

Boot to DOS (not shutdown to DOS). While booting hit F8 to startup menu. Chose "command prompt only ".

Type these commands exactly hit enter at the end (do not type the notes that are in parenthesis like this).

del c:\*.swp (may get file not found, is ok)
del c:\windows\*.swp
deltree c:\windows\shelli*.*
deltree c:\windows\temp\*.* (answer yes to all) "ALL "
deltree c:\windows\tempor~1\*.*
deltree c:\windows\history\*.*
deltree c:\windows\spool\printers\*.*

After booting back to Windows put win98 cd in drive then go to

start-run
type

sfc /scannow

This will replace any missing or curupted system files.

Your move!

mike