Packard Bell Confusion

Packard Bell Confusion (- unknown folders)

Hi,

I just did a daughter's friend a favor by firing up an old Packard Bell her parents gave her. It's a 7955c and runs Win 98 FE.

I gave the old unit quite a good cleaning out of old programs, demo games, you name it. Cleaned up the house and it runs tickety-boo.

BIG QUESTION: After it all, I have 2 folders left in Windows Explorer that I left well enough alone. I want to know what they are and if they can be deleted or not. These folders, if left there will only confuse the heck out of this girl. It is her very first pc and things will be confusing enough as it is for her.

First folder is called Failsafe.drv and has only 2 files in it. One is an autoexec file and the other is a configsys.

Second folder is called Frudiag. This one is a biggy with many subfolders named according to pc parts like cdrom, memory, cpu, hdd, mouse and the such. Within those folders, are subfolders. For example.....the will be a folder within Frudiag folder called Sound. Within the Sound folder will be many subfolders called Sound001, Sound002, etc. Batch files within all these subfolders.

So......can someone PLEASE help me with what this is all about? I need to deliver the machine tonight. I would really appreciate any input you may have about these folders.

Randy

 

Thanx Christer

I hid the folders and that's that. However............

..............curiosity is killing the cat as to what these folders are. Does anyone know?

Also, before I deliver it, I have one of my old ISA sound cards in it. The original Packard OS disc exists but is not here. I will pick it up if I must. You see, it has an onboard ESS Solo sound chip that isn't working and....well.....most of you probably already know how I will never find the correct drivers for it. Do you think it could be in the Frudiag folder??? If not, maybe the Packard disc?

I cannot, for the world of me, find out which solo driver I need. Can any of you help at all????

Thanx in advance,
Randy

 

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sparrow,

Sorry for taking so long to post back but, as I originally posted, I had to return the machine to its owner that same day and I did just that. I am minus an old Soundblaster ISA sound card I had in my old P3 box. I had to use something to generate sound.

Oh......the Frudiag folder mystery is over. Later, that same day, I actually did pick up the Packard Bell Restore Disk from her, hoping a sound driver would be there for me and easy to spot or install. Although I know the driver was there somewhere, it was of no value to me as I could not find it or install it.

Frudiag:

This was the name of a major folder on the Restore cd. It was as though someone had, perhaps, copied the contents of that folder onto the HD. Instead of guessing if that was the case and deleting it, I went with Christer's advice and hid the folder along with the other folder in question.

I just shake my head at these restore discs. I think old Jed on the Beverly Hillbillies put it best when he said "pitifull........just pitifull"

Isn't rebooting your PC and giving one of these restore discs a chance to do its thing kind of like standing in the middle of a dry forest, tossing a struck match upwind, and expecting only the bad stuff to catch fire and burn down and, then, only in the upwind direction from you????

I guess that when the situation is right, they are okay but how many people really know what's going to happen to their data and programs as a result of tossing that proverbial match?

So we now know, more or less, what the mystery folders were. We now know that a simple forest fire may have got the onboard sound chip working (if the actually chip was not blown on the mobo). I am now also in the know that it might be a great thing not to see this brand in the arms of most of the shoppers carrying their newly purchased computers to their respective cars in parking lots.

Thanx to everyone who pondered and those who posted,
Randy