I have been having trouble with my computer always freezing up, and then I have to manually restart it. It is getting worse instead of better, I even took it to a shop, and they didn't know what it was, also I can not get my disk deframenter to work, it will go to 2% the quit saying there is an error, or again my computer will freeze up. Please help me, I have a scanner and a printer hooked up, and when I try to run them, again I have major freeze. Thank you for your time....

How much ram do you have in your system? How manny programs are you running at once? Do you have power management enabled? Sounds like it is a software problem. E-mail me more about it and I'll try and help

Sounds like your hard drive is going. When was the last time you ran scandisk?

Reinstall your W2K. It will prompt during setup to repair/reinstall. It does sound like your hard drive is getting ready to go south. You may have to fdisk/format the hard disk and start over if the drive isn't too old (over 3 years).

Sounds like very similar problems to mine. I think I have either an ACPI problem or an IRQ problem or both. I first installed Win 2000 and it worked fine. My spec is Athlon 600, MSI K7Pro mobo, S3 Savage4, Motorola SM56 PCI modem, Crystal CS4235 sound and Matrox Diamond Max VL20 10.2 GB HD. At the first instance, I did not install the modem. As soon as I did, the computer froze. I couldn't get back to Win 2000, it froze before the dekstop opened. I couldn't get in even with the safe mode, so I reformatted HD and installed Win 98. Using Win 98 I noticed my graph card was causing me problem. I think it was because it shared IRQ 11 with the modem and ACPI. I changed to another graph card, Nvidia Riva Vanta and with that the system works fine, but now if I try to install Win 2000 it gives an error message 'Your BIOS does not fully support ACPI...' even though I know it does. So I can't install Win 2000 now. I will try to flash my BIOS and also I'll try to install Win 2000 on top of Win 98. Also I'll move the modem to another PCI slot so that there is one less device on IRQ 11. If you want you can check the interesting web page on IRQ's and ACPI which I found: http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~stevemcd/win2000.htm I strongly recommend reading it if you think you have driver/freezing problmes with Win 2000. Good luck

I got this "Your BIOS does not fully support ACPI..." error message too when the computer restarted for the first time after I installed Windows 2000 from Windows 98. If you get this error message, just reboot your computer. It will resume installing Windows 2000. All you need to do is press F7 when it's installing drivers. The installer will silently accept this special key, so to make sure press it a few times then Windows 2000 will install just fine. Hope this helps you get Windows 2000 on your hard disk.