Win 2k Lockups - Help please

[Windybey]

While browsing or using the pc / playing games for 10 mins, it just locks up, the mouse freezes and there is no errors on the screen like green lines or anything, as if its overheating or summin - its not tho =] 30oC Athlon 800.

Specs - Athlon 800, Abit KT7-RAID , Hercules GeForce 2 64 meg, 384 MB Crucial PC133 CAS 2 , SB Live player 1024, BIOS WWw

 

[sadb0i]

time to format!

 

[joeyjojoe]

i think you have the right idea but are thinking about the wrong source. you should check to see if your video card is suspect, and make sure that the drivers you install are actually installing (my friend had this problem and found out that the via drivers he istalls don't really take effect (i.e. drivers still say microsoft)).

 

[Laddyboy]

Actually you need to install the Via chipset drivers and the Microsoft/Amd Agp fix and the sp1. try this firs then format and re-install amd do the above mentioned. Also find some working drivers for you video card. I am using 649 or 650 w/0 problems. Hope this helps

 

[AMD4ME2]

I'm having this problem too.. just to test and see if it is in fact the same problem try going to www.shockwave.com see how long you can just set on the page and watch the animations before the computer dies.

 

[Hecky]

...OR you could put in a coppermine and watch your problems disappear!!

 

[igiveup]

New CPU? expensive guess. Go to event manager (see next para if you don't know where that is) and look for your system or application areas to see what is happening and when. Note the time next time it happens and reference this in the event viewer.

Right click on My Computer and select manage. Expand event viewer and here you are.

 

[AMD4ME2]

UPDATE: I replaced my netgear FA310TX network card with a 3com card. now the crash is gone!! I had problems in win98 with this netgear card and my old system so I thought I would give it another chance in my new system apparently its just a steaming pile of ShieT!!

 

[AMD4ME2]

ok so maybe that wasn't the solution It is still locking... only it doesn't seem to be locking as much...

 

[petes28]

i'm getting this problem also... any help out there?

my system is in profile

 

[AMD4ME2]

ok how many of you are overclocked? and by how much? I brought my system down to as close to stock chip speed as possible with a 133mhz FSB so i'm at 933 and not even a hiccup from win2k.

no false alarm this time.. I've been running it for 2 days now

 

[DOOPYLOOPY]

Did you all install the AMD AGP hotfix?

 

[AMD4ME2]

AMD hotfix??? thats old isn't it.. like from 1st gen athlons? the only hot fixes I got were from microsoft.

 

[petes28]

not overclocked at all, and i got the amd agp hotfix and the microsoft dma hotfix. i dont' know if the dma fix did anything.. i'm still getting low sandra and hdtach scores in win2k...

 

[virtuamike]

If DrWatson catches it, then check the core dump log to see what caused the crash. It'll tell you if an app made an invalid reference (CPU problem), if memory address was inaccessible (RAM problem), etc. Forgot exact location, just search around in Documents and Settings -> Profiles. The core dump is a pretty big file so just look for the folder that's abnormally big.

 

[BigGreenGumby]

It does sound like a video problem, I had the same type of lock ups when I forgot to move the agp divider to 2/3 when I move from a Celeron to a P3. The system would run Office fine but anything graphics intensive it would just lock (even playing videos). Get that AGP hotfix, latest drivers for the card and make sure you didn't do what I did ;^). Also Look at moving your AGP from 4x to 2x. I had that problem at work.

Those are my suggestions

 

[AMD4ME2]

we need to see if its a piece of hardware we all have.

KT7A-Raid
Geforce256
SBlive
netgear fa310tx nic

I also have a sportster fax/voice modem in the isa slot.

 

[petes28]

i'm pretty sure it's the sblive!

 

[AMD4ME2]

nope.. ive pulled the soundcard before.. still does it..