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PC that hangs alot!

Asked by fredand44 in Miscellaneous Hardware, Hardware Components

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Hello!

I'm struggling with a problem with my PC 500Mhz 128 Ram that used to work fine before a new installation of Win 2K. The problems is:

1) The computer hangs every 3:rd time at startup. It reaches to the big Windows logotype and the progress bar is full. After that it doesn't step into Windows. the last reading from the harddrive ism't happening. Just the big logo is showing.

2) When I'm working with the computer like with Photoshop that are pretty demanding it uses to hang after a couple of minutes. But I can, through a twisted TP, exchange files with the computer but it doesn't responds to any input at all. I can't press CTRL+ALT+DELETE or move the mouse. Caps lock doesn't respond either. At hanging point I have had the taskmanager showing. At the processes tab the 3 processes at the top sorted at CPU is:
System Idle Process        CPU:92 Mem:16K
Photoshp.exe             CPU:06 Mem:31,4K
CSRSS.exe             CPU:02 Mem:1,4K

The Mem Usage is: 134456K/367140K

I have updated the BIOS to the latest version and run servicepack 4 without any improvement.

Perhaps I just need to buy more Ram but It would be great to know before.

Is there any swap memory that I can increase and get the same result like buying more Ram?

I also have run defrag 4-5 times and it can't be defrag anymore.

I got som tip earlier about the hardware power, I guess that it is set to 2Volt like I can read in the bios setup, but is that possible to change?

Any suggestion is appricated!

Best regards
Fredrik

Some facts about the hardware:
Motherboard: ASUS P3 500MHz  (ASUS P3B-F)
Grafichcard: Nvidia RIVA TNT
RAM 128Mb
Harddrive 10Gb
1 CD-reader (Master) ASUS
1 CD-burner (Slave) LG
Floppy

PS I have thrown in all my points that I have for this question :-)Start Free Trial
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