Computer freezing....

[walks]

Im currently running an AMD-K6 450 Mhz computer and recently I just had a virus infect my computer. I formated my c drive and lost everything of course but for some reason now when I try restarting my computer it usually freezes upon entering the desktop screen. Does anyone know if there could be a hardware conflict or something, I have a

TNT2 video card
SoundBlaster Live Sound card
DVD-Rom
Sony CD- Burner

Also I have just one hard drive which is my C drive. However I do have a D drive. Now on my other comouter I have a D drive but it was created using Norton Ghost so if something bad happened to my computer I could quickly recover. On this computers D drive its full of a lot of the information that was previsouly on my computer before I formatted it. Could this perhaps be a problem as well? And if so how do I get rid of it?

Any help would be appriciated

Thanks

Walks

 

[frank049]

you don't say what operating system you are using i.e. win95/98? their was a problem with win95 were their was problems with processors above 300mhz this I think was resolved in later versions.

What you could do is on boot up press the f8 key down or repeatedly when you switch the system on this is done after the memory count I find it best to press the f8 key then.
This should hopefully give you a dos menu screen with approx 5 options one of these will be to boot up into "safe mode" sellect this option this will boot up into a windows diagnostic screen i.e. your windows in 640x480 with windows default drivers. You should receive a message that says that you have booted in safe mode ect.. with an ok button press this (this is your only option) If you can get on to the desktop then it seems that you have a driver problem and something needs restalling.

If you then go into device manager and check for mutiple entried of devices remove just one item in a heading at a time and reboot to see what happens. (if it still locks up going into normal windows)

 

[drkestrel]

Also, you could look for devices with an Exlcamation Mark! in the device manager... those you probably need removal/reinstalltion!

I suspect your D Drive is another partition of the same HDD as your C Drive??

 

[hotfusion]

From memory......some motherboard VIA chipset drivers have a conflict with soundblaster, something Creative have sorted of late, but if your soundcard is more than a few months old I would suggest you search for updated drivers, this is good practice anyhow. Also try a chipset update for the same reasons. (NOT a bios update - one case of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'.) My suggestions are what I would try myself. If incorrect, I welcome corrections to my rather limited knowledge. Andy.

 

[dannywild82]

wow. i have the same system almost, with a separate d: drive, same cpu but a crystal audio soundcard. via motherboard too. freezes all the time, and when moving the mouse i get a clicking noise. whats goin on???

 

[coorsbill]

You didn't mention if you have cleaned the virus yet! I assume so.

Check your IRQ assignments (Right click My Computer on desktop, then Hardware, etc), click on IRQs, note if your TNT card shares interrupt with a busy NIC card or the soundblaster. Devices can share an interrupt without creating a "conflict" (exclamation mark), yet suffer great performance loss. If this is the case you should move one of the cards to another slot and re-install it. If you are running Win98, let PnP re-install it for you. Make sure you have the latest driver for the card that you are moving, as well as your Win98 install disk.

I had this problem of the cursor "jerking" periodically on my Win98 system (900Mhz athlon, Gigabyte 7ZX board) w/TNT2 card (nVidia M64 32Mb) right next to NIC card which was hooked to a high-speed cable modem via a hub. They ended up sharing IRQ11 and got tired of bumping into each other all the time. I moved the NIC card, PnP detected that; asked me for the driver floppy then the Win98 cd, reconfigured a few things, then after reboot I found that it had put the NIC card on IRQ5 all by itself. The entire system now runs so fast I can't believe it, with no hangs. Even with Xolox running with over 280 threads! Took me a year to figure this out.