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
PII machine
Win 98SE
Power scheme: System Standby - Never
Turn off Monitor - After 15 minutes
Turn of Hard Disks - After 1 hour