On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:06:41 -0600, Tim <timmib.nospam@excite.not.com>
wrote:

>no-email@all.com wrote on 10 Jan 2008
>
>> I have a 1GHZ IBM Netvista computer. I am running Win98se.
>> At least once a week, if not several times a week this
>> computer will just reboot without any warning. I am not
>> referring to the occasional blue screens that happen with
>> Win98, those happen once and awhile, and I'm not too
>> worried about them, knowing they are just part of Win98,
>> and they happen less often than these reboots.
>>
>> It seems the reboots usually occur the most often when the
>> computer is not being used, and is in idle. I DO NOT have
>> any power saving or screen savers turned on, so it's
>> nothing like that.
>>
>> Generally, what happens is this. I leave the computer,
>> often have a couple web pages and Agent loaded. I normally
>> manually go offline when I am not using the computer to
>> avoid tying up my phone line (dialup). So, the computer is
>> doing nothing except sitting there with a few things on the
>> screen. I come home a few hours later and find the
>> computer with the C: dos prompt on the screen. (I have
>> shutdown set to boot to dos). I have to reboot and
>> everything is fine again until the next occurance of this
>> problem.
>>
>> Yesterday I was on the computer typing a newsgroup message,
>> and had several web pages loaded in the background. All of
>> a sudden the computer just shut off. The screen went
>> black, I heard one long and 4 short beeps, and there was
>> nothing on the screen, and the computer was shut down,
>> except the power light was still on, but no fans or drives
>> spinning. I had to shut off the power to get anything to
>> happen, since CTRL ALT DEL did nothing. When I turned it
>> back on, everything loaded normally, and I went back
>> online. I bagan to load some web pages and found the
>> entire system was running so slow I could barely get the
>> cursor to move. To move it a half inch meant moving the
>> mouse 10 inches on the desk.
>>
>> I rebooted again, this time leaving the computer off for
>> several minutes before restarting it. I rebooted again,
>> and everything has worked fine ever since.
>>
>> What the f##K is going on?
>>
>> I will mention that I have run Scandisk as well as
>> Diagnostics from the manufacturer on both of my hard
>> drives, and they are fine. I checked both the P.S. fan and
>> CPU fan, and both are running. I also have tried to remove
>> one of my two RAM strips, and this problem happens with
>> either (or both) strips. I also pushed all connectors to
>> be sure they were tight inside the case.
>>
>> The chipset and CPU are Intel.
>>
>> Anyone have any idea what's going on?
>>
>>
>Greetings,
>
>Do a google on "ibm netvista reboot problem". Sounds like the
>problem you're experiencing.
>
>Tim

I did this and got only one webpage. Yes it does sound like my
problem, but there's no followups to tell what to do to fix it. I
have the model 6341, not the 6578 mentioned on that webpage, but
they're likely similar models being in the 6xxx series.
Maybe it's just time to get rid of this thing and go back to my old
700mhz system until I can buy something newer. I cant go much newer
anyhow, because I want to continue with win98. Xp is not my thing,
and I wont even consider Vista.

By the way, I occasionally run Win2K on this computer, when I swap
hard drives. I have never seen a reboot on 2K, but I use it so seldom
that it's not likely had a chance, and I dont have Win2K setup to go
on the internet.

I really doubt this is a software issue anyhow. Because yesterday
when I did the reboot and it was running so slow the mouse cursor
would barely move, I shut down to Dos, and when I typed DIR, it took
at least a minute to *slowly* show all the dirs in the root directory
of C:, and finally get back to the C: prompt.

Thanks