[Ham-Computers] Intermittent Computer lockup under Norton

[George, W5YR]

I have an almost identical system running Norton Utilities, AV, etc. for a
long time. It started acting as you describe and the cause was a flakey
memory stick in Bank 2.

Before making the change from Norton, run the Norton Diagnostic program on
your system and see what it uncovers.

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Philip Atchley wrote:
> 
> Hello all
> I'm running a 500MHz Intel P3 with 256MB RAM.  Recently I installed Norton
> Systemworks 2001 on it and with Liveupdate made sure I had all the updates
> to it.  I'm running Win98SE with all updates.
> 
> Reason for switching from the AVG antivirus to Norton was that AVG didn't
> recognize the Eudora 5.1 Email client I switched to.
> 
> My Problem:  Ever since I've switched to Norton I get intermittent computer
> lockups on various programs.  Eudora is only one of them, it's also
> happened in windows Explorer and other programs.  Sometimes when this
> happens I can "recover" by using the old standby, Cont/Alt/del keys and
> shutting down the program that is locked up.  Other times the entire
> computer locks up and the only thing I can do is a hard "reset" with the
> button then watch that yellow line crawl across the screen 8^(   It doesn't
> appear that any one program or "routine" will cause this problem, it's
> entirely random but a pain in the backside.  Never had this problem prior
> to installing Norton.
> 
> Any ideas?  If I can't correct this problem I'll have to remove Norton and
> Eudora and go back to AVG/Outlook Express 6.0, something I'd prefer not to do.
> 
> 73 de Phil  KO6BB