Locks up overnight - Help! Thursday, February 15, 2007 at 10:14 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jeff Leites (87 messages posted) For the past nearly two years, I've been leaving my PC on all the time. Lately, it's been locking up first thing in the morning. For the past two mornings, I've moved the mouse to "wake up" the system, and the monitor comes on (light changes to green), but the screen is black except for kind of a line that separtes the taskbar from the rest of the screen. The system is then otherwise dead. (other times the wallpaper will display, with or without some of the icons). I then have had to boot up more than once to get it working again, it will lock up in various stages of coming up, making it a little further each time. This morning, after it made it all the way, it locked up again about a minute later. One more reboot and it was ok, and it will probably be ok as I use it intermittently throughout the day. I'm becoming more and more tempted just to buy a new machine, I'm just not looking forward to all the installs I'll have to do. Any on have an idea? PII machine Win 98SE Power scheme: System Standby - Never Turn off Monitor - After 15 minutes Turn of Hard Disks - After 1 hour Responses to this message: re: Locks up overnight - Help! (gewg_: Friday, February 16, 2007 at 11:16 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Locks up overnight - Help! (Jeff Leites: Thu, Feb 15, 2007, 10:14 am) re: Locks up overnight - Help! (gewg_: Fri, Feb 16, 2007, 11:16 am) re: Locks up overnight - Help! (Jeff Leites: Fri, Feb 16, 2007, 11:53 am) re: Locks up overnight - Help! (gewg_: Fri, Feb 16, 2007, 1:26 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum