Larry, you may have a hardware resource conflict. Those will crash or freeze
a computer quite often. Go to Control Panel>System>Device Manager and then
double click on Computer. You'll then be on View Resources. View by IRQ and
see if you have some hardware sharing an IRQ. Some sharing is allowed, but
look for a video card and modem or perhaps a sound card and a modem using
the same IRQ for example. This is a good place to start. Report back on what
you see in that resource window and we can go from there.
Jim K2JL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Menzel" <retire@rconnect.com>
To: <trlog@contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 12:09 AM
Subject: [TRLog] Somewhat off topic HELP Pse
>
> Hi guys,
>
> You all have such great computer knowledge maybe you can help me with this
one.
>
> After about 18 mo of solid performance, my PII machine is giving me a
> headache. It's locking up as soon
> as I try to launch a program, especially a graphic one like
> Photoshop. First symptom was when I could
> no longer drag and drop files in Windows Explorer. Now if I try to do
> that, it locks up, too.
>
> So...I tried usual trouble shooting things.
>
> Pulled all boards except video card...no joy
> Reloaded Widows...no joy
> Tonight I managed to get everything backed up to another drive and
> REFORMATED the C drive and reinstalled Windows.
>
> Guess what? Still freezes up, just moving files and/or creating
shortcuts.
>
> OK...do I have a motherboard problem or a hard drive problem. Seems to
> lock whether I'm trying to move
> files from either my C or D drives.
>
> CD Rom works and loads software, but as soon as I try to do anything in
the
> graphical interface, BINGO...locks up.
>
> HELP.
>
> Larry, N0XB
>
>
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