"Mike Bader" <mdbader@flash.net> wrote in message news:<nUwZa.337$MT7.15781010@newssvr15.news.prodigy.com>...

Had this happen on one of mine.
Try Prime95 I bet it fails too. (stress test)

Hi Mike! Perfect advice. I crashed in 0,5 seconds with Prime95
"running".

I think something got too hot or took too much voltage.

Nothing seems to be too hot - not that I have time to read anything
now - but when it was a periodical fault I read the values, which I
unfortunately just have in Celsius, but the SpeedFan that you
recommended just now says 105 degr.F for the CPU fan and 89 degr. F
for the case fan - and a surprisingly high CPU Usage:50% - was Win
98SE always like that?

I did powersupply, fans, motherboard, RAM, CPU, CPU fan, new hard

drive

unless some part failed for a second time, in the process of me changing the
rest.

Well I just spent money to build my dream computer - my first self
made - and as a grandmother with a small budget I would like NOT to
replace all parts in the 'old' one. But I do suspect the PSU. It's
behaving strange in many ways. The reset button isn't booting anymore,
it's closing. It's become quite a science to start the machine after
crash.

When the dream computer is finished one of the members in my SETI club
suggests that I 'borrow' the CPU from my new Antec Sonata (close to
each other) and then see what happens.

I traded it in, it works fine if the CPU isn't stressed.

Well, I would rather not. I'm planning to have a little network
running SETI (or BOINC later on) to defend my 6th place in the club
founded by me :-)

Thanks for your excellent advice. Now I have something to show my IT
pusher

Regards from Kirsten