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Usually it's IRQ's somewhere. Try going into Control Panel | System |
Device Manager and hit the Print button. It gives you a very nice
analytical report on the system.
-- 
Robert Bethune
Omnex Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
please respond to me in the newsgroup.

Poseidon <black_sun@techie.com> wrote in article
<MPG.f7a829e84972be89897ab@news1.sympatico.ca>...
> I am having the lamest problem with my computer. It will freeze for no 
> reason, any application, and I have to push ctrl-alt-del 3 times for it 
> to do a hard reboot.
> 
> I am running a Cyrix P133+, 32mb ram on a crappy motherboard.
> 
> It has been happening at least 12 times per day...it doesn't seem to 
> happen when no one is using it but it is turned on. Mostly just when the 
> mouse is moving. I have the Video card set to IRQ 10 and there doesn't 
> seem to be any conflicts.
> 
> I am wondering if this is a software/OS problem or a hardware one. I 
> formatted my boot drive and reinstalled Win95B on it and it didn't help.
> 
> Any Suggestions?
> 
> Poseidon
> black_sun@techie.com
> 
> 

Poseidon wrote:

> I am having the lamest problem with my computer. It will freeze for no
> reason, any application, and I have to push ctrl-alt-del 3 times for it
> to do a hard reboot.
>
> I am running a Cyrix P133+, 32mb ram on a crappy motherboard.
>
> It has been happening at least 12 times per day...it doesn't seem to
> happen when no one is using it but it is turned on. Mostly just when the
> mouse is moving. I have the Video card set to IRQ 10 and there doesn't
> seem to be any conflicts.
>
> I am wondering if this is a software/OS problem or a hardware one. I
> formatted my boot drive and reinstalled Win95B on it and it didn't help.
>
> Any Suggestions?

You might try replacing the memory with a couple of new SIMMS. They are
cheap these days and without parity checking on most machines a memory
problem can cause this. I know, since I had exactly this problem. If the
problem turns out to be something else, you can upgrade your memory to 64
MB which won't hurt either.

--
Tom

You didn't state what kind of video card you have, so I'll just throw in
this suggestion. Trident video cards with the 9680 chipset, are known to
cause this problem with directX 5. I had two systems exhibit this problem,
and the machines had totally different configurations, and motherboards.
After I replaced the video cards with another brand, all lockups ceased.
Both brands of video cards used the same IRQ, so that wasn't the problem.


Poseidon wrote in message ...
>I am having the lamest problem with my computer. It will freeze for no
>reason, any application, and I have to push ctrl-alt-del 3 times for it
>to do a hard reboot.
>
>I am running a Cyrix P133+, 32mb ram on a crappy motherboard.
>
>It has been happening at least 12 times per day...it doesn't seem to
>happen when no one is using it but it is turned on. Mostly just when the
>mouse is moving. I have the Video card set to IRQ 10 and there doesn't
>seem to be any conflicts.
>
>I am wondering if this is a software/OS problem or a hardware one. I
>formatted my boot drive and reinstalled Win95B on it and it didn't help.
>
>Any Suggestions?
>
>Poseidon
>black_sun@techie.com
>

Poseidon,

  As a last resort, why not try resetting CMOS setup. Use the 'Default'
settings or slow, safe settings. This will clear the problem if its a
timing problem with the 'crappy' motherboard. Also, you could have a
memory problem too. Give it a try after saving the settings on paper.

Larry
--------------------

Poseidon wrote:
> 
> I am having the lamest problem with my computer. It will freeze for no
> reason, any application, and I have to push ctrl-alt-del 3 times for it
> to do a hard reboot.
> 
> I am running a Cyrix P133+, 32mb ram on a crappy motherboard.
> 
> It has been happening at least 12 times per day...it doesn't seem to
> happen when no one is using it but it is turned on. Mostly just when the
> mouse is moving. I have the Video card set to IRQ 10 and there doesn't
> seem to be any conflicts.
> 
> I am wondering if this is a software/OS problem or a hardware one. I
> formatted my boot drive and reinstalled Win95B on it and it didn't help.
> 
> Any Suggestions?
> 
> Poseidon
> black_sun@techie.com

Same problem here!

I have reinstalled win95 5 times to no avail. 2 weeks ago my system was
fine. After I was trying to mess with midi input and output, the problem
appeared. 

I have lost hours of work to spontaneous freeze ups.

Someone out there help.

Jose

Poseidon <black_sun@techie.com> wrote in article
<MPG.f7a829e84972be89897ab@news1.sympatico.ca>...
> I am having the lamest problem with my computer. It will freeze for no 
> reason, any application, and I have to push ctrl-alt-del 3 times for it 
> to do a hard reboot.
> 
> I am running a Cyrix P133+, 32mb ram on a crappy motherboard.
> 
> It has been happening at least 12 times per day...it doesn't seem to 
> happen when no one is using it but it is turned on. Mostly just when the 
> mouse is moving. I have the Video card set to IRQ 10 and there doesn't 
> seem to be any conflicts.
> 
> I am wondering if this is a software/OS problem or a hardware one. I 
> formatted my boot drive and reinstalled Win95B on it and it didn't help.
> 
> Any Suggestions?
> 
> Poseidon
> black_sun@techie.com
> 
> 


======================================= MODERATOR'S COMMENT: 
dt032398

In one of the Win95 newsgroups, someone posted that a Trident Video card was
to blame.  While I was reading the post, my machine froze.  What video Card
are you using.  I have th same problem.

Tom

tom burke wrote:
> 
> In one of the Win95 newsgroups, someone posted that a Trident Video card was
> to blame.  While I was reading the post, my machine froze.  What video Card
> are you using.  I have th same problem.
> 
> Tom

If you're using custom mouse cursors, try going back to the default
scheme and see if it still locks up.  My ATI AIW kept freezing under
custom cursor schemes.  Something to do with "rendering software
cursors."

--
Jeff S.

>Poseidon <black_sun@techie.com> wrote in article
><MPG.f7a829e84972be89897ab@news1.sympatico.ca>...
>> I am having the lamest problem with my computer. It will freeze for
no
>> reason, any application, and I have to push ctrl-alt-del 3 times for
it
>> to do a hard reboot.
>>
>> I am running a Cyrix P133+, 32mb ram on a crappy motherboard.
>>
>> It has been happening at least 12 times per day...it doesn't seem to
>> happen when no one is using it but it is turned on. Mostly just when
the
>> mouse is moving. I have the Video card set to IRQ 10 and there
doesn't
>> seem to be any conflicts.
>>
>> I am wondering if this is a software/OS problem or a hardware one. I
>> formatted my boot drive and reinstalled Win95B on it and it didn't
help.


Try making sure that your memory is firmly in place in their slots.

HTH,

--
THE VIKING WAR CHIEF


======================================= MODERATOR'S COMMENT: 
 ib250398

On Sat, 21 Mar 1998 07:24:32 CST, "thor" <anon@anywhere.com> wrote:

>You didn't state what kind of video card you have, so I'll just throw in
>this suggestion. Trident video cards with the 9680 chipset, are known to
>cause this problem with directX 5. I had two systems exhibit this problem,
>and the machines had totally different configurations, and motherboards.
>After I replaced the video cards with another brand, all lockups ceased.
>Both brands of video cards used the same IRQ, so that wasn't the problem.

I had this problem with my 9860-based video card -- constant lockups
from mouse-intensive operations, like dragging scroll bars. Happened
at least once a day, from Day One.

I'm not sure the trouble has gone away entirely, but I changed my
Hardware Acceleration setting to "Most accelerator functions" and the
lockups stopped.

     [=] Randall [=] 

--
randall blank <rblank@bigfoot.com>


======================================= MODERATOR'S COMMENT: 
jpj250398