random lock up

[Michael Klinedinst]

ok,i would like to ask this again,ive got a two year old gateway with windows ME ,it was give to me because it just locks up at any time.  So i was thinking it was the hard drive at fault,so i bought a new hard drive and installed it,and after almost two days of rebooting just to get ME to install,and running systems checks in dos,(which everything passed)this dam thing still locks up ,ive got to reboot 5 or more times just to get it to run in safe mode, just for in to lock up after running for a few minutes  

I put in a new hard drive ,wd 80 gb,8mb buffer,and a new 256 mb pc133 memory card,????what gives what can i do or look for to fix this short of a new mother board??

[cjkgmgod]

When you get into Safe Mode got to run and type Command and type scanreg/restore

[Michael Klinedinst]

Thanks for the help,but that didnt solve the problem,guess its off to the big computer heaven for this one.

[cjkgmgod]

When you get into safe mode, try locating the c:\windows\options\cabs folder scroll down the page next to the scanreg icon is ONE called setup click that.. It should reinstall the system defaults and you shouldnt lose any files.

[Computer_Commando]

Disconnect CDROM and see what happens.
Remove any plug-in cards, one at a time, and see what happens.

[Flame]

Thanks for the help,but that didnt solve the problem,guess its off to the big computer heaven for this one.

Think positive!  

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