hello

I have a similar freeZing problem as womanink.

It happend ALOT and frankly I really cant stand it!

It freezes both offline and online but, more when ur online!!!
I also get the "explorer is perform an illegal action.."

and when either of that happend I HAVE to turn it off from the Power Switch cos nothing else seems to work.

One more thing I also get this CMOS CHECKSUM SOMETHING not ERROR THO!

ANOTHER THING....U KNOW THE BLUE SCREEN MS SCANDISK..THE THING THAT THE COMPUTER PERFORMS WHEN I START THE COMPUTERR AFTER I SHUT DOWN BY PULLING THE POWER SWITCH?? THAT FREEZE SOMETIMES TOO...
IT WOULD TAKE SO LONG AND SOMETIMES WHEN I PRESS ESCAPE...NO RESPONSE WHEN I SUSPECT IT FREEZED....SO I WOULD HAVE TO PRESS THE RESET BUTTON.

WHAT SHOULD I DO???

Wins 98 SE
127.0 MB of Ram
9.48 GB HD
Intel Celeron Processor 550 MegaHertz ( or something around that)
As for Sound Card I dont know how to check for that?

+ASH+

First thing would be to run a "thorough" Scandisk in Windows.

Go to the Start Menu > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Scandisk. Select the Thorough option. This will not only do the standard files / folders / file allocation table checks but it will also do a physical check on every sector of your hard disk - in layman's terms, that means it will look for damage on the disk that cannot be fixed and will gradually get worse and worse.

Let us know the results of the Scandisk. If it gets to the end of the Scandisk, it should display a summary showing lots of different information, probably headed up by a statement saying "Scandisk found errors and fixed them all". One of the bits of information should say "0 files in bad sectors". If there's more than zero, then there's a problem.

By the way, a thorough Scandisk will probably take a couple of hours on that PC, so set it off and leave it to get on with it for a while. Check on it every 10 minutes and you should see a counter going up each time.

ok, i'll try that i hope it wont freeze in the process

nothing in bad sector!