Locks up

[Jean]

Every 3 or 4 times upon startup my computer locks up, and
I have to turn it off, and then back on again. Once it
took 3 startups before it would respond. I am a fairly
new computer user, older lady, and not too computer
literate. Can anyone tell me why it does this, and how
to fix it, without getting too technical? Thanks, jean

[Rich Barry]

Without getting too technical, do you get any error messages on the screen
when it locks up and how old is your computer? It could be a hardware
problem. Power Supply or Ram Memory getting flaky.

Jean" > wrote in message
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> Every 3 or 4 times upon startup my computer locks up, and
> I have to turn it off, and then back on again. Once it
> took 3 startups before it would respond. I am a fairly
> new computer user, older lady, and not too computer
> literate. Can anyone tell me why it does this, and how
> to fix it, without getting too technical? Thanks, jean

[paul]

I am having the same problem. I am old and VERY computer
literate. I hate when this happens, it could be anything.
If this is a new for your computer, try to remember
anything you've done to it since it stopped working
correctly. I have done a million things and won't undo
them all. Good Luck.

>-----Original Message-----
> Without getting too technical, do you get any error
messages on the screen
>when it locks up and how old is your computer? It
could be a hardware
>problem. Power Supply or Ram Memory getting flaky.
>
>Jean" > wrote in message
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>> Every 3 or 4 times upon startup my computer locks up,
and
>> I have to turn it off, and then back on again. Once it
>> took 3 startups before it would respond. I am a fairly
>> new computer user, older lady, and not too computer
>> literate. Can anyone tell me why it does this, and how
>> to fix it, without getting too technical? Thanks, jean
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