If you have to ask, the best answer is "Take it to a shop and have it
professionally diagnosed and repaired". Unless you're pretty good at
computer repairs the do-it-yourself route can get rather expensive since
most shops won't take back the RAM you bought to test by substitution.

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"Bonnie Jean" wrote in message
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Thanks Richard. Is there a way the problem can be diagnosed? Isolated?

Bonnie

"Richard G. Harper" wrote in message
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Random freeze-ups are usually caused by a hardware problem - bad memory,
bad
power supply, or a failing or failed cooling fan somewhere in the system
are
the most common causes.

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"Bonnie Jean" wrote in message
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I have: Win ME, use Foxfire, no viruses (PCcillin), no spyware (AdawareSE
and SpyBot), recently deleted internet temp files and ran scan disc and
defrag.

For a couple of weeks, my computer has been locking up. It doesn't seem
to
be application specific. I can't even esc or ctrl alt del---have to
manually
turn power off CPU and reboot.

I never have gotten an error message.

The latest thing I downloaded was TurboTax---which by the way is a piece
of
crap. I uninstalled it. And I recently downloaded "Registry Mechanic."

Any ideas?

Bonnie in NJ