Gram123
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Hi.
I am having a little trouble with my PC. Basically, it is locking up forcing me to switch the power off and then restarting.
(this isn't the same PC that had the trojan problems a while back).
The PC is a AMD Athlon 1Ghz, 384Mb RAM, Win 98.
The problem occurs when I attempt to open certain web pages, particularly Yahoo.
The PC will just freeze, although the fans continue to whirr away, the mouse and keyboard are entirely ineffective.
The problem doesn't occur after any specific amount of time - sometimes immediately after logging on, sometimes after a couple of hours. It has not occurred unless I've been on the internet, and as I say, it appears to happen only on certain web pages - perhaps pages that have a lot of info? Not sure.
I have ran an AV check at HouseCall (clean), but I have a sneaking suspicion that it is not a viral problem, rather some loose bit of hardware or memory failure or somesuch.
The cables all seem secure (and they're all pretty new), so unless it's a loose card or memory strip or something, I've ran out of ideas.
Any help?
Gram
I am having a little trouble with my PC. Basically, it is locking up forcing me to switch the power off and then restarting.
(this isn't the same PC that had the trojan problems a while back).
The PC is a AMD Athlon 1Ghz, 384Mb RAM, Win 98.
The problem occurs when I attempt to open certain web pages, particularly Yahoo.
The PC will just freeze, although the fans continue to whirr away, the mouse and keyboard are entirely ineffective.
The problem doesn't occur after any specific amount of time - sometimes immediately after logging on, sometimes after a couple of hours. It has not occurred unless I've been on the internet, and as I say, it appears to happen only on certain web pages - perhaps pages that have a lot of info? Not sure.
I have ran an AV check at HouseCall (clean), but I have a sneaking suspicion that it is not a viral problem, rather some loose bit of hardware or memory failure or somesuch.
The cables all seem secure (and they're all pretty new), so unless it's a loose card or memory strip or something, I've ran out of ideas.
Any help?
Gram