So you formatted the hard drive and installed Win 98? Check in the device manager for any yellow marks against the devices. If you find one...
I would reformat and reinstall windows on your old machine. It sounds like a lot of spyware/viruses are on the hard drive and ,to me, it's easier...
what could cause a computer to lose as much as 45 minutes per day? Maybe the battery on the motherboard?
How is the cd rom connected? I had the same thing happen to me....the cd rom was set as slave on ide 2. I had to make it a master on ide1 to work.
the boot sequence can be changed in the bios. Simply make it (the cd rom)the first bootable drive and you're on the way.
In the BIOS the 12v rail is showing 12.3-12.5 and in the Everest program it shows over 13. I guess I will need to use a tester to independently...
From the description of your problem it sounds like the power supply is bad...maybe a short circuit from the sounds of it. Probably has affected...
if you look in the device manager is there a yellow mark somewhere? maybe the driver needs to be reinstalled. I find winmodems are not as good as...
Paul, Downloaded the program and checked the voltages.....and all seem to be ok. 12 volt rail is 13.1v but I think it is ok.
on my kids computer, running winxp, the components are failing one after another it seems. Over a period of 12 months we have replaced , ram, cd...
Brett, Thanks again! my problem was solved by replacing the autoexec.nt file which was missing for some reason!?
brett, Thanks for the link. It looks like i can solve my problem from the info there!
on one of my computers because I get a message that says "The system file is not suitable ". The file is C:\WINNT\System32\Autoexec.NT I am...
Don't forget to set the cd-rom as the first in the boot sequence. Also if you have a controller chip or raid chip you will need the driver handy...
Check in the computer BIOS to see if the USB port is enabled. With all the drivers loaded from WinXP the USB should work even without all the updates.
have you tried safe mode? Another possibility is to remove the hard drive make it a slave and install temporarily on another machine. Now you can...
sounds like a memory problem. Download and run a memory check program and see if the memory is good.
You could also download a win98 boot disk from http://www.bootdisk.com/
Why?
is it possible to make a RAID 0+1 setup with only 2 drives?
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