Hello all.
Your help is much appreciated and its my first time here.
I am currently running Windows ME, but I had the same problem on 98.
Basically, if my computer is left idle, for a few minutes it freezes. The screen stays as it is and I am unable to click on any icons. The mouse pointer will move with the mouse but it just seems to make a whirring sound. The only way I can restart the machine is to switch off and restart. i dont think the problem is with millenium, because I had exactly the same problem with windows 98. The system is a AMD athlon 1.2 Ghz, 128 DDR ram, FIC motherboard. A 2.5 gig and a second 600 meg hard drive, soundblaster 128, voodoo3 / 3000.
On some occasions I have had a blue screen pop up, during boot up saying that my C (my 2.5 gig) hard drive is not accessible. Recently, it also makes a whirring sound. However, I have defragmented it and also a through scan disk does not report anything wrong with the harddrive.
I also have a sound card on my motherboard, but that has been disabled.
All my power management, screen savers are switched off.
Please help. Thanks.
Your help is much appreciated and its my first time here.
I am currently running Windows ME, but I had the same problem on 98.
Basically, if my computer is left idle, for a few minutes it freezes. The screen stays as it is and I am unable to click on any icons. The mouse pointer will move with the mouse but it just seems to make a whirring sound. The only way I can restart the machine is to switch off and restart. i dont think the problem is with millenium, because I had exactly the same problem with windows 98. The system is a AMD athlon 1.2 Ghz, 128 DDR ram, FIC motherboard. A 2.5 gig and a second 600 meg hard drive, soundblaster 128, voodoo3 / 3000.
On some occasions I have had a blue screen pop up, during boot up saying that my C (my 2.5 gig) hard drive is not accessible. Recently, it also makes a whirring sound. However, I have defragmented it and also a through scan disk does not report anything wrong with the harddrive.
I also have a sound card on my motherboard, but that has been disabled.
All my power management, screen savers are switched off.
Please help. Thanks.