Solve : Random freeze ups?

1.	Solve : Random freeze ups?
Answer» I got an older gateway for my father after he BOUGHT a new HP ,because of random LOCK ups. Thinking the PROBLEM was the hard drive i bought a new WD/80 GB-8MB IDE,.After many lock ups later the computer wont GO passed the user information setup wizard. With the old hd i would need to restart many times until i could get windows to run,the old O.S. was ME ,So i installed 98 SE knowing the problems with ME ,98 is the only full os i have,but to no avail,still locking up. The computer is a 2 year old gateway 128mb ram 1100 mhz amd,what sould i do ,what can i look for,???,ThanksDo you have a lot of programs running in the background? Also, does this only see to happen when a certain PROGRAM is running? Another thing... DO you have antivirus software? [glb]Flame[/glb]Its a new hard drive and a different OS ,old OS was ME,i am trying to install 98se on a new hd ,but still have random lock ups as it is trying to install the os

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