computer beeps then freezes

[lonewolf]

Hi my friends computer is acting weird.
He says this happens on the net more than anything.
He'll be surfing and then the computer gives out a single beep and then freezes. He has to shut it down and reboot and then its fine for awhile. But usually happens again in a hour or so.
He's on dial-up if that makes a difference.
Could it be overheating?
Some feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks Dave.
He says it happens mostly on the net but has happened during normal use.

[Calpitor]

Check the Event Viewer (inside Control Panel's Administrative Tools) see if you can find the associated error and post back.

[lonewolf]

Here's what he sent me if this helps or not.

8/8/04 8:12 am- 8:13 am

i had a total of 16 errors(that just blows me away) within the time frame above. They were in sets of 2 as in:
2- service control manager
2- DCOM
then one more at 2:14 pm this afternoon, it was- service control manager.

This is what it said for the srevice control manager errors:

the IPSEC Services service terminated the following error:
The authentication service is unknown.

Then the DCOM errors:

DCOM got error "the dependancy service does not exsist or has been marked for deletion. " attempting to start the service BITS with arguements'' "in order to run the server:
{ 4991D34B-80A1-4291-83B6-3328366B9097

Let me know if this is what you wanted.
Dave.