I need pc help--please don't shoot me, hear me out
I am at my parents house, i have been setting up their new dsl and email accounts for them. They use a pc. I know that this isn't a pc message board, but i know some of you use pcs. please don't tell me i should just get a mac because i have one and they aren't going to be buying a new computer anytime soon. okay? okay.
Sometimes the pc freezes up and then restarts. I'm pretty sure that this isn't normal. At first I thought it was a problem with the power supply or something, but that wouldn't explain why it freezes up for 30-60 seconds. I'm not doing anything hard core when it does it either. Just using IE and AIM. sometimes only IE, sometimes only AIM.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
BTW, I can't wait until I get home to my mac
Sometimes the pc freezes up and then restarts. I'm pretty sure that this isn't normal. At first I thought it was a problem with the power supply or something, but that wouldn't explain why it freezes up for 30-60 seconds. I'm not doing anything hard core when it does it either. Just using IE and AIM. sometimes only IE, sometimes only AIM.
Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong? Any help would be appreciated.
BTW, I can't wait until I get home to my mac
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Check it out, worth a shot
<strong>Win 98 has problems with DSL, and Cable, really it can't deal with anything but a 56k modem, at least not mine You could upgrade them to xp, thats what i did. Other wise just do the winupdate get everything refreshed.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Sorry for asking a stupid question, but wht the hell is winupdate? Using their computer when I am visiting is the only time I ever use PCs. Please excuse my ignorance.
<strong>If you've ruled out software problems.. If they've had the computer for a long time, you might wanna look at the fans. They can clog with dust and prevent air-flow if the computer is on the floor or in a cramped envoironment, which naturally causes the processor to overheat and freeze/reboot.
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I tried to take a look at that, and I opened the bitch on up, and for the life of me, I cannot find a fan in there. I can feel a little bit of air blowing out of the back of the power supply, but that's it. Is this normal? It's some sort of Gateway machine runningn Win98, looks like it has 64MB of RAM, and that's about all I can tell. According to by brother, it has been doing this for a while, so I don't think it's the DSL per se. The had Roadrunner before this until they moved. THanks for all the advice so far, i appreciate it. But i would apreciate it more if the damn thing would work (and if this keyboard reacted like mine does )
With mine win 98 could not support pcmcia.
win millennium did not read the stupid winmodem (internal one in the laptop..) and that still gives me headache cos i took away windows and use the pc now with redhat linux 7.3 ... the only thing that's so far dead is modem.
My suggestion :
format it.
then install windows millennium and pray it works.
if doesn't.. format again and again... it's windows!!
then maybe with the dsl modem it could work with linux... at least it's more stabile ...
PS. if u want to be more specific with the problem i could find some reasons???
(u'll find the formmail to me in my site..)
good luck with the pc...