I have an Asus A7V with a AMD Thunderbird 750Mhz. It has 256MB of RAM. It is runnning the win98se OS and IBM 46 GB HDD. My computer usually freezes and gives me the blue screen of death. History of the computer: AMD 750 MHz was bought used and had history of overclocking. I am pointing towards the CPU is giving me the intermited problems with my OS or a virus in my computer. Do you think I am on the right track or do you think it is the OS itself? Help..

Well, you need to give us a few more hints. What are you doing when the machine freezes? Does it do it everytime you do that? What sort of error messages do you get? Be as exact as you can. Have you added any software or hardware to your system? What kind of video card are you using and are the drivers upto date? Same for sound card.

blue screens about change in volume when I boot up (cold boot)... Installed and reinstalled sound blaster live. Video card is 8mb ATI It's been doing this since we put the whole computer together

As above : the more HINTS the better ! A good start would be a system clean-up. Get rid of temp files,cookies,0byte files etc. using disk clean-up or a sweep (or washer)utility from say Tucows(http://www.tucows.com/) ,then do a scandisk and a defrag. Worried about a virus....... Virus Online scan: http://housecall.antivirus.com/pc_housecall/ Overclocking...... Overclocking Guide : http://www.sysopt.com/overc.html Follow-up with a troubleshooting set of instructions..... http://216.167.71.32/windows98/troub-51.shtml Try that and if no joy .....phone back.

One more thing. I just remembered that when I had put the computer together. I installed Pc-cilin for my Asus motherboard and had it monitor automatically. I kept having probrlms detected my Pc-Cilin that there was a problem with the FPU. My computer still ran so what I did was uninstall PC-Cilin. In the months to come it kept freezing. I thought it was the win98se OS I installed so I reinstalled it again and had the same problem. I installed all the correct drivers for the motherboard, sound card, video card, UATA 100 Promise tech... What can you make of this? Any more suggestions. I have installed win988se more than 10 times...

Just bought a used (Infinity ) computer yesterday. It has a Pentium III (MMX) processor, 128MB RAM and 10 GB hard-drive. Runs Win98 se and has Micrsoft Word 2000 and, I believe a 8MB video card. After putting it all together I tried to register - after a few typings it froze. I had to turn off the power. Then I tried accessing Word and it loaded OK but froze as soon as I clicked on the stupid paper-clip helper. Tried Control Panel to install my printer - froze. Tried accessories and was successful in using Wordpad, wrote and saved a document but when I tried to open it in C: drive it froze. Tried setting up an Internet Connection using 98's wizard - froze. Tried clicking on My Computer - froze and gave me message:"Unknown zone".It freezes while I do *anything* it seems. Did play a game of Solitaire and can't remember at what point it froze t This morning I decided to do a thorough disk scan- it began fine but froze after 12 minutes while scanning the disk surface (data area)262,201 of 1,232,782. Any ideas?

MARIANNE, Here are some reasons why a computer freezes: 1. Over heating CPU 2. Over clocked 3. Weak Power Supply 4. Division by zero Here's a URL that might help: http://216.167.71.32/windows98/troub-07.shtml The other thing you can do is reinstall win98. If you reinstall from the cabs it should not mess with the other programs just the OS itself. There should be a Cab file in your computer. Usually they set it in WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS\SETUP.exe You must restart your computer and boot in dos mode. then go to that file. Let me know if that works, George