help Pc freezes

[windyridge]

ok i'm helping my sister fix the computers at the school she workes for

i have about 5 of these that do the same thing i have windows 98se on them they freeze up like a very hard lock-up no bsod

the specs are
Amd K6-2 266
no name mobo
230watt at psu
40x cd-rom
cheap video card
onboard sound
samsung 3.2gb hd
floppy
2 72 pin 32mb chips
1 168 pin 32mb chip
it's not overclocked

also if any people work for a company that would like to donate Pc stuff email me

also we are looking for about 30 computers at least 1ghz

also need dual cpu server
and some large port swicths for lan

thanks to all that can help

the school is St. Matthews School outside of Chicago

[klosters64a]

Boxes usually don't run when mixing different types of RAM. From your description, it looks like there are two 72-pin SIMMS and one 168-pin DIMM in these machines.

[TASOS]

Some more info on the exact settings and facts would be more helpfull.

[Resqme]

I have a old Tx pro mother board that will take either dimm or sdram. if i try to mix the memory it locks up on me all the time
like klosters64a says that could be your promblem. Just take out
one or the outher and see if it will work

[windyridge]

i took out the ram in the 72pin slots and still locks up

[windyridge]

there is a lan card too could that be it?

[windyridge]

ok lan card is good that leaves the
psu
hard drive
cpu
mobo
videocard


windows loads ok but when you move the mouse it freezes

i put 128mb of pc100 in it (2 64mb sticks)

[The Coolest]

I think I'm the only 1 w/ a magical mobo, I had a Global something that ran 16MB of EDO w/ 32MB of SDRAM w/ no problems/lockups or anything what so ever, and it was overclocked from 166MHz to 188MHz (75FSB) Rock stable!!!

[Resqme]

For the heck of it take out the sdram and try with the 72 pin
if it still locks up, I think next i would check for IRQ conflict

[windyridge]

thank you too all that helped

with a new video card the little beast is alive and still works with the 72pin simms and the 168pin dimms

[TASOS]

I'm glad you made it
But still i dont think it was a hardware problem....looks more like drivers or conflict