Re: Just introducing myself
- From: "HelenEdith" <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 22 May 2006 05:42:03 -0700
Toby Widdows wrote:
I would say you have a hardware problem in either the dvd drive or the ide
controller, possibly but less likely is a memory problem.
Good luck.
Toby
Hello Toby
I could have sworn that I replied to this message this morning, but it
hasn't appeared on Google, so maybe I didn't post it properly. Being
without my news client is not fun:-(
I should be able to rule the DVD drive in our out as the cause of the
problem as I've got separate DVD reader and CD burner drives, and
although the burner drive is slower, it will also read CDs and I can
set the BIOS up to boot from that rather than the DVD drive. In fact, I
was doing that for a while yesterday, but can't recall whether I
installed to the 17GB drive from it before setting the BIOS back to
pointing to the DVD reader. I can try installing from the CD burner
again to rule out problems with reading the CD.
We've also got two legal copies of XP in our house, and I've tried both
CDs, although I don't think I've given the second CD a good enough test
yet, so there's some more testing I can do there.
I don't think the hard drive is the problem as I've used two different
hard drives.
My other half is all for upgrading my BIOS. I've got an Asus
motherboard which I bought a bit over a year ago. I also bought a new
processor and new memory at the same time, so all of those components
are pretty new, and have also been running Win98 for the past year or
more.
It could be worth trying different IDE cables, as they may have come
out of the PC I upgraded from last year and are therefore older.
I also still need to try to *extract* rather than *copy* the file that
the PC is complaining about. I've been in recovery mode, but just did a
copy of the file, and that's not what MicroSoft tell you to do, so I
need to go back and do that properly.
The other possibility is that there's a long-standing fault somewhere
in the system (possibly motherboard, memory or IDE cables) as I've had
three major Win98 corruption problems in the past year since upgrading
my PC. I've reinstalled Win98 each time and copied my data back, losing
a few files each time. My other half has been keen to blame Win98 or my
email client software (Turnpike 4.5) for these and is the prime mover
behind the upgrade to XP, but maybe Win98 wasn't at fault after all.
(As far as Turnpike is concerned, it wasn't running when the last
incident occurred, so I think it's innocent.)
I'm just about ready to reinstall Win98 and forget about XP, but I'd
prefer to have XP as it won't have the same memory leakage problems I'm
experiencing with 98, and also the last twice I've reinstalled, I
haven't been able to get remote desktopping to work, and my other half
is sick of me borrowing his XP computer when I work from home:-)
Helen
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