Computer freezes after booting up

I have recently started having problems with my computer
constantly freezing after it loads everything, then it
restarts on it's own. I have ran my anti-virus and it
can't find any viruses on it.

I have Win98SE.

I don't get any sort of error messages when it does this.
I have also tried running my scan disk and Defragment
tools but also can't get them to run. It tells me there
is another program writing to the file? I have closed
everything except for Explorer and Sys.

My scan disk does run when it restarts after the freezing
though! Anyone have any suggestions on how I can stop
this freezing problem? Outside of tossing this thing out
the window?

Thank you in advance for ANY suggestions.
Regards,
Stella

Hi Stella -

Could be any number of things. For starters:

TROUBLESHOOTING WINDOWS Zero in on the Problem!
http://aumha.org/a/tshoot.htm

Could also be parasites of another sort as opposed to a virus causing this.
http://aumha.org/a/parasite.htm
http://aumha.org/a/quickfix.htm

Defragmenter tool articles
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q286263

Scandisk articles
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q287914
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;276443

Lastly:
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4269/dragdrop.jpg
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LuckyStrike

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"Stella" wrote in message
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I have recently started having problems with my computer
constantly freezing after it loads everything, then it
restarts on it's own. I have ran my anti-virus and it
can't find any viruses on it.

I have Win98SE.

I don't get any sort of error messages when it does this.
I have also tried running my scan disk and Defragment
tools but also can't get them to run. It tells me there
is another program writing to the file? I have closed
everything except for Explorer and Sys.

My scan disk does run when it restarts after the freezing
though! Anyone have any suggestions on how I can stop
this freezing problem? Outside of tossing this thing out
the window?

Thank you in advance for ANY suggestions.
Regards,
Stella