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PC Hangs Intermitently

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Miyagi

Miyagi

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Sep 5, 2001
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I would like to know if there is software, which I can use to try and help me in the following type of problems
1. There is a pc, which hangs at different intervals during the day, or it doesn’t hang until after few days later. The pc is turned on in the mornings and then turned off in the evenings.
2. Sometimes the display gets grabeld and then I can’t do anything until I reboot.
3. Sometime when the screen saver starts (default of fish swimming from Microsoft) the fish start swimming across the screen but instead of the fish image the fish appears in a square shape). I have changed the display card and the problem is still there, as I had explained to you above this problem is intermittent, it can happen maybe sometime in a day or sometimes once or twice in a week.
4. Win98Se 20Gb with 18GB free 256MB Ram, Processor 1.7Ghz P4 Intel 423
 
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Have you made sure that you have enough video ram on the cards you have installed for the applications that are being run? Are the video settings in cmos appropriate for the kind of video adapter? Did you make sure that the drivers are the latest available from the manufacturer? Have you tried another manufacturer's video card?

Before you buy software for testing, I would try turning off all screen savers. If the symptoms do not return, you can suspect a corrupted screensaver and reload it.

Then I'd look at memory. You can purchase something like Check-it Suite (Smith Micro)reasonably and test the memory. There are probably sharware memory testers, but I don't use them in the shop. I prefer using test programs that test hardware in DOS or some proprietary system, so that you don't have to deal with Windows interference. If you don't want to do this, swap known good memory into this system, stick by stick and run it hard for an exended period (48hours).

Good luck.
 
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Upgrade your version of Directx from Microsoft and see if the problem goes away.

After installing the upgrade, Start, Run, dxdiag and let it do all the video tests.
 
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