Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware.motherboard
Titolo: p2 333 freezing issue!

Help! my computer just randomly locks up on me..  I have a p2 333 with 128mb
ram and its wierd when it locks up everything just freezes and I get no
error messages heres the bios wizard specs on my mobo.
                         BIOS CAPABILITIES TEST REPORT
                        ===============================
Generated by:   BIOS Wizard 2.10
Date:           March 14, 2002
Time:           00:45
PnP Version                : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.0
PCI Version                : BIOS currently supports latest version 2.1
PCI IRQ Routing Table      : BIOS currently supports this feature
Enhanced Disk Drive
Specification              : BIOS doesn't support this feature
DMI Version                : Current version is 2.0. The minimum DMI version
is
                             2.1
ACPI Version               : ACPI is not found
APM Version                : BIOS currently supports latest version 1.2
Booting From CD-ROM        : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports ESCD              : BIOS currently supports this feature
Can be Updated (flashed)   : BIOS currently supports this feature
Can be Shadowed            : BIOS currently supports this feature
BIOS Chip in Socket        : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports Selective Booting : BIOS currently supports this feature
Supports LS-120 Booting    : The testing of this feature is not supported by
                             the current DMI version
Supports ZIP Booting       : The testing of this feature is not supported by
                             the current DMI version
Supports Network Booting   : The testing of this feature is not supported by
                             the current DMI version
BIOS Manufacturer          : Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID                    : 11/26/97-i440LX-2A69JO09C-00
BIOS Date                  : 11/26/97
BIOS OEM Signon            : Rhino II LX, ITE 8679, 098-017, 05 MAR, 98
BIOS ROM Size              : 128K
Chipset                    : Intel 440EX/LX rev 3
Super I/O Chip             : ITE 8679 or 8680 found at port 279h
anyone have any suggestions???? please?? :) if you respond by email just
take the extra @ out of my email addy . thanks.

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when was the last time that you blew out the dust in your computer... I'm
suspecting that it's built up on your CPU heatsink/fan and is causing your
CPU to overheat.
-LiGGyMaN

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 out the dust with a fine comb it may help???
sure.  i'd recommend you take the whole system apart, clean the contacts of
all the plug-in cards, memory sticks, processor etc with clean alcohol.
then reseat everything.
this is in addition to what above posters have suggested.
what o/s are you using?  do a defrag, or, in the case of win2k/xp - do a
disk cleanup, followed by chkdisk, followed by a F8 boot (safe mode) and
defrag from there - it will be more comprehensive that way.
if above general tweaking does not resolve problem, then you should start
suspecting hardware peripherals for imminent failure.  memory, hard disk
(back up!), motherboard, processor ... these components last, but they are
not immortal.
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