I bought a new computer in December 1998. I purchased a clone from a small shop, a 450 mhz Pentium II, 128 meg SDRAM, 32x CDROM, 8.4 gb hard drive, 56k modem, 17" monitor, Windows 98.
I thought I had a good deal for a new computer, coming in at 1700 plus tax.
But, from day one, the machine freezes unpredictably..sometimes after 1 minute, sometimes after several hours.
When it freezes, it goes into a coma. The clock stays at the same time. No keyboard or mouse command works. If a song was playing, it continues to play in a loop. In a word, frozen.
I took the machine to the maker twice. Two different approaches were taken to resolve the problem. I'm thinking that a third visit will hopefully yield a replacement machine.
I've been trying to solve the problem myself. I replaced the generic mouse with a new MS mouse with driver software. I purchased First Aid 2000 from McAfee. I purchased CheckIt and NetOptimizer from Touchstone.
The utilites add some cool icons in my system tray but do little else. CheckIt and FirstAid 2000 tell me that everything is fine. The utilities don't know that my system is freezing.
Has anyone ever heard of this problem? Is it Windows 98?
I wish I had gone to a major manufacturer.
The utilities tell me that everything is peachy keen. They only tell me that there are no problems. Yeah right. |
