I can't think of a very good title for the problem my computer has, but here is the jist of it. Basically, whenever my computer runs for a while (2-4 hours), all of a sudden it will decide to quit running. The power will still be on, and the processor fan is still running, but the screen is black, the keyboard is frozen, and none of the cd-rom drives will work or even show any signs of power when I press the unload buttons on them. Then when I turn off my computer and turn it back on, the computer will act like it is starting....the cd-rom drive light will come on, but then it will be in the same state I described above, where nothing appears on the screen and no power to the drives work. The cure used to be just letting the computer sit for a few hours, then it would boot up again. However, over the last few weeks the problem has gotten progressively worse. Before it wouldn't crash for a week or so, and now it seems to crash twice a day. This morning it wouldn't even turn on, and I had left it off for 7 hours. I'm assuming this is a hardware problem since I can't even get power to the cd-rom drives when I boot up. The computer is an Athlon 900 with 512 MB of RAM, windows ME (uck, but it came with the computer). I've replaced the power supply on it, since it was a cheap fix, but that didn't help it. Is it a motherboard problem? Any help would be appreciated, and I'm more than happy to answer any additional questions that may help you give me a clue to what the problem is.
Nate W.
Nate W.