help my gateway freezes up help my computer from gateway is freezing up on me gateway tech support couldn t help me they want more specifics on when it freezes up i did anyway here it is if the keyboard is left idle in dos for more than minutes i can type on the command line but as soon as i hit a carraige return the computer locks up this will happen almost every time whether i ve just booted up reset or finished using a dos program everything works fine if i don t let it sit windows is a different story if i let the machine sit while in windows for minutes or more it does not freeze up however i do get frequent application errors that kick me out of an application unexpectedly losing my work i just don t know if this is a hardware or software problem any help in diagnosis or things to try would be greatly appreciated p s i do not run any tsrs except smartdrive and qaplus diagnostics says everything is good system is sx crystalscan gateway monitor vlb ati ultra pro using mach driver build winchester mb hd microsoft mouse thanks el guapo
