Win 98 freeze up after long inactivity

[Designware]

Hi,

Thank you for reading this post!

I have a Win 98 desktop (Motherboard K7SEM and AMD Athlon 1300 ... I believe) that runs fine all day. However, if we leave it on overnight (or on during the day for an extended period of time ... say over 4 hours), it freezes up. When someone finds it in the morning, the clock in the bottom right may say 5:15 ... even though it's about 9:30. If you click on an icon to run a program ... it may take about 5 mins or so. Even to run solitaire.

If you reboot the system, the system clock is is back to the correct time, and everything runs great!

I left the system tools displaying on the screen one night, and it did not APPEAR that CPU usage was at 100% or anything. I did get it to give me a Fatal Exception 0D once ... so I upgraded the video drivers in the machine.

Are there some system tools out there (for a reasonable price) which can identify a freeze up (or seriously slowing down) problem in Windows 98? Do you have any thoughts about what I should try?

Thank you for your help.

Dale

 

[BOURBAKI]

Go to Display Properties ( right click on an empty spot on the desktop and left click properties)
In the Screensaver tab click on Settings under Energy saving features of monitor.
Under Power Schemes choose Always On.
Under System Standby choose Never.
Under Turn off hard disks choose Never.
In the Hibernate tab uncheck Enable hibernate support.

 

[TekTippy4U]

also check the screensaver setting itself, and look into the My Computer >> Scheduled Tasks folder to make sure it's not trying to perform a disk cleanup/defrag or whatever, automatically in the middle of the night - or even "when idle" for a certain period of time.
You can choose "Advanced" menu in Scheduled Tasks to "Stop using Task scheduler"..or just Delete the Task

TT4U

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[adakiss]

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