moishe - 5:50 pm on Aug 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

Howdy Mike,

One thing you might try is installing 98, this will at least help you determine if it is a hardware problem or a software/driver issue. Chances are, if it still locks up in 98, you have a hardware problem.

Have you tried:

Updating the bios?
Updating the firmware for any PCMCIA cards/CD roms etc?
If you have multiple sticks of ram/ pull 1 then swap?
Run full scandisk on HD from prompt to see if it is developing bad sectors and thus maybe crashing?

Good luck