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Windows 95. System Lockup

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by rowal, 2005/05/25.

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  1. 2005/05/25
    rowal

    rowal Inactive Thread Starter

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    My neighbour very recently acquired an old Windows 95 Pentium system. 100MHz CPU with 16MB RAM. No internet access but suitable for her requirements. Another "helpful" neighbour put a Win98SE disk in the CD ROM drive and has fouled up the whole system.

    Win 95 is still there and resources are 88% free. Starting in 'Safe Mode', the mouse, screen, and whole system locks up after a few seconds. No F1 help can be accessed. Booting in normal mode results in multiple vertical screens which cannot be read. The display was changed to 1024 x 768, 256 colour. The CD ROM is not now recognised.

    I made her a start up floppy when she first got the machine but, even with that, we just get to the A: prompt.

    Any suggestions will be much appreciated.
     
  2. 2005/05/26
    jerry4dos

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    I vote for a fresh installation of Win95-B from scratch. A bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com should get you to a DOS prompt with the CDROM drive working to allow you to do your FORMAT and INSTALL from the CD.
     

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  4. 2005/05/27
    rowal

    rowal Inactive Thread Starter

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    Thanks Jerry.

    Neighbour came in a short time ago, all excited. She managed to race in and change screen resolution back before everything froze and, so far, everything seems to be working normally.???

    Thanks again.
     
  5. 2005/05/27
    jerry4dos

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    Great!
     
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