System Hangs in windows

[michaeldeepan]

Hi All,

I am running windows 98SE on celeron 333 Mhz with 4 GB HDD and 64 MB. Recently I am facing a problem, my system hangs when I click on start "or" open any items on the menu bar "or" while opening media player

I had tried fixing re-installing win98se and fixing the cables still the problem presists

Pls help
Michael

[Dan Penny]

This could be memory related based upon the symptoms. Download the latest release of Memtest86 from here and make the floppy. Check the Readme, boot with the floppy* and run the checks. It can't hurt and will eliminate this element of the problem resolution.

* You may have to set your bios boot sequence to the floppy as the first boot device.

Once you've eliminated the memory factor, if you haven't already, you could also boot with a 98 EBD and run a thorough scandisk on C: from DOS. ie;

scandisk/surface c:

It'll take a while to run using the /surface switch. Check the memory first. If there is bad memory, it will cause disk errors, data loss or corruption, or both.