win98 se random lockup

windows 98 SElocks up randomly fresh installtion no device comfilicts please help
600 mzh
64mb ram
30 gig hd

 

tweetjeep,

Welcome to the board! Can you give us any more info? Does it usually happen when using a certain program? What do you have running in the background? What can you do when it freezes? Does Ctrl-Alt-Delete get you anywhere? Do you have to shut off the power to get going again? Whatever info that you can offer would greatly help.

Mike

 

any program will freeze system

programs running in the background are
earthlink updater and toolbar
mixer
hp printer
twain32 scanner for flatbed

ctrl,alt, and del do not effect the freeze... you have to hit reset..

i have already run defrag. , scandisk, system file restore.
device manager looks good i have also disabled the ethernet card..
thanks for trying to help me.....

 

tweetjeep,

Hopefully, somebody will chime in with some suggestions. In the meantime, I would try disabling one of the programs at startup to see if it helps. If the first choice doesn't work, try one of the other programs.

I will do some looking tomorrow to see if I can find anything else for you.

Mike

 

new 30 gig hard drive old one died...

i'm running maxtor 30 gig ata harddrive have the jumpers set on cable select
i'm not totallly sure but i think i leftfor the cd rom jumper where i'd don't remeber.....oops i know they were on different cables... my bios says
hard drive is prim. master and sec master... bois is by american megatrends Inc. socket 370 series m754 i don't know version but it was created in 12/?/03
i reinstalled win 98 setup and did seletive startup, ALSObrought my ran upto118...what happened today was loading the last of files to disk he got
\blue screen o i am looking for a sysrestore or good reg.....i ended up powering the more i pllay with the devices that have nothoog

 

Would you clarify your last post?
The Master connection on the ribbon is at the end, the middle connection is the Slave. When the hard drive is jumpered to Cable, the ribbon position determines whether the drive is Master or Slave.
You should try having the CD as a Secondary Slave.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/ide4.htm

 

BOOT VIRUS

the cables are right i believe hard drive is prim. master and cd-rom is sec. master
i put the cd-rom that come with the hard drive in and was gonna format ...the disk says i have a boot virus and to go to www.antivirus.com ... a friend told me all i should have to do is fdisk and reload windows? What do yall think? i was only on the internet a few times before it started.... is it possible? i'm sure it is....

 

Hmm, a boot virus. Just running fdisk, deleting and creating a new partition will not do the Master Boot Record. I would start with a new bootdisk. Before you boot the computer with it, write protect it by sliding the tab, you should see through both holes when done. Create the new partition, reboot with the floppy in. When booted type in the commmand;

fdisk /mbr

It will appear to do nothing, that is normal. I would do it three times. That command rewrites the boot record.
Then format it.

 

If you have "Virus Warning" (or something similar) enabled in the BIOS then when the Windows installer starts it will stop and say boot virus. I was reinstalling WIN98SE on an old pent. 166 about a year ago and ran into this. I could boot off the CD and start the install but as soon as it tried to write to the harddrive it would beep and flash a warning about a boot virus.


Bubba169

 

virus

thanks yall but fdisk\mbr did not work.... i am at wits end....and i did not see anything about virus in the bios

 

Maybe clear your CMOS and reset the Bios to failsafe defaults

just a guess

Bubba169

 

resetting bios

thanks i have tried to go back to the defaults and it still hasn't helped... well i feel like a real ninnie poop cause i took the hard drive back and got another one to try and get rid of the virus and my trend chipaway virus protection was set to enable... anyway i loaded 98se again and still the same prob. thanks all yall for your help i have faith we can figure it out....

 

So the "bootvirus" mystery is solved?

When you reinstalled did you pull the modem, NIC, soundcard, etc.. out then add them one at a time? Or may be a faulty memory chip. Do you get any error messages at all before the lockup? Have you blown out the inside of the case with canned air? Could be overheating, post back with any info like what you are doing when this happens.

Bubba169

 

motherboard

thanks yall for all your help... i got ticked off finally and took it to the shop and they told me my motherboard was going out....they sold me a 1.7 ghtz processor with 20gig hard drive for 330.00 thanks again for helping

 

virus

ps the boot virus was the hard drive software was reconized as a vius by my bios

 

tweetjeep,

Glad to hear that you got going again. Sorry that had the expense though. Hopefully, everything will run smooth for quiet awhile now!

Mike

 

tweetjeep what did you do with the old PC? If you kept it you may want to put the 30 gig harddrive (old 30 + new 20=50Gigs of space) in your new box or maybe buy a new Motherboard & CPU combo and network the two, just throwing a few ideas at you.

Anyways glad you got a new PC

bubba169

 

thanks yall glad to be up yeah i;m gonna combine the two...