My problem is that W2K Pro freezes, in no particular pattern, and the only way to resume activity is to reboot.
I have a SOYO 6BA+ IV motherboard (latest bios). 2 Seagate ata/66 hard drives (C: 18 Gb, D: 30 Gb), both are FAT32. Running 128 Mb DIMM, 100 Mhz. Intel P3 650 Mhz CPU. Have Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64, HP CD-Writer 8200i (internal) and a Creative Labs DVD 6 kit. Video card is Voodoo 3 2000.
I've tried removing the 2nd hdd, dvd decoder card & sound card, leaving only the video card. No help, it still freezes on occasion.
Sometimes, PC is fine for hours and never freezes. Other times, it freezes a few minutes after I start. No particular pattern to what software I'm running. Sometime it crashes will on the internet or using some other software. Other times, it freezes even if I haven't started ANY programs.
I originally had W98 SE running & upgrade to W2K, maintaining all my programs.
I tried safe mode but I cant run most of my programs so I really cant test. Leaving it running in Safe mode (without running any software) hasn't caused a crash yet.
No errors in event viewer.
Any help appreciated!
I am not positive, but I think that you should
Download the Startup COP a free pcmag utility from
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/18/08/ut1808.001.html
Run it and it will show you everything that is listed in all the possible startup
places, and allow you to disable things one at a time until the problem is eliminated.
You may have some programs starting up that are not fully win2k compatible. Since there are a number of different places you can do an autostartup, Startup cop will help.
Another option is msconfig, but I am not sure it is available on win2k.
try Start run , msconfig and go to the startup Tab.
If neither of these work, we will have to dig into the registry.
I hope this helps.