I think emergency disk can help this situation, may be system files got
corrupted, once boot up from win98 emergency disk, check command.com type
command from c: propmt, If you have problem use sys C: from emergency disk
to restore system files and might be window registry file (system handles)
were corrupt then restore window register from day you know system was
stable (up to 8 version?) using \windows\commands\scanreg program.
It help me, while my register file corrupt by no reason (hung up when It try
to boot) .

Peter C.

Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Alex asks:
>
> > Hello, I'm currently using an HP Pavillion Model #6350.  It seems
recently
> >  when I'm on the internet especially my computer is just freezing -
locking
> >  up and automatically rebooting.  The screen will just freeze out of
> nowhere.
> >  I'm currently usingWin 98,  IE 5.0 and Outlook Express most of the time
> when
> >  it happens.  Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can fix this?
>
> I know what the Mac users in this group would tell you do :-).
>
> More seriously, this used to happen to me quite often several years ago,
when
> I was using a Pentium 100MHz machine, running Win95, primarily using AOL.
> Ultimately, the problem proved to be our ISP and his modem handling. The
> problem was eventually resolved by our ISP upgrading his modems. Since
> they've done that, I haven't had the problem for several years.
>
> But I can tell you that it used to infuriate me. You probably don't know
> Denys Beauchemin, but he's this group's resident PC guru -- and I
discussed
> my problem with him at the time. Denys didn't have a clue, and I still
don't
> as to the cause. I would be typing something highly intelligent, worthy of
> being recorded for the ages -- and spending tens of minutes on its
> preparation -- and then have the PC freeze exactly as you describe.
> Eventually, I learned to sign off of my dialup network PPP connection
before
> I began writing (or save my comments every few minutes while writing).
>
> I still use dialup PPP once in a while, but we're otherwise frame-relayed
> now. Nonetheless, I can't think of a problem that I was more pleased to
see
> disappear. We did nothing at our end to solve the problem. Everything we
do
> now is just as we did then. And I'm not sure that our ISP knew that they
were
> solving this problem. But what I can say is that I cuss a lot less
nowadays.
>
> Wirt Atmar
>