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Old October 18th, 2004, 02:12 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Hi

I have pentium 3 450mhz CPU with windows 98 . It had 8gb hard hard
drive
64mb sdram bus speed 100 mhz. I have removed the 64 mb sdram and
upgraded
the sdram to 2 x 128mb sdram bus speed 100 and falshed the latest bios
to
support the bigger hard drive which is now 40gb. I have also removed
8gb
hard drive. I had problem downlaodng windows 2000 abd xp home edition.
So
finally i managed to dowload windows 98 by partioning the hardrive to
2gb
and 37gb. the prodlem now i am facing is that when i try to start the
computer after leaving it off for extended period of time i.e 4 to 5
hours
it does not boot the whole system right away and freezes at windows98
screen when it comes up. Then i have to shut the computer down some
times 6
to 8 times before it boots up. Once it is booted it works ok. Another
problem i am facing is that computer is freezing on internet. I thought
that probably explorer version 5 is not supported by certain sight,
however
once i downloaded the version 6 the same problem. I am able to connect
to internet however unable to go to any sight or check my emails...my
whole
computer including mouse and keyboard is locked and i cannot used (crtl
+
alt + del). Please help.
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Old October 18th, 2004, 02:57 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Sounds like there may have been a problem in the BIOS flash. Is there a way to flash it back to the original bios version you had to test & see if that is the problem? Also, be sure to run Memtest86 (www.memtest86.com) on your system and check the hard drive with the manufacturer's diagnostic tools to see if it is failing.
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Sounds like there may have been a problem in the BIOS flash. Is there a way to flash it back to the original bios version you had to test & see if that is the problem? Also, be sure to run Memtest86 (www.memtest86.com) on your system and check the hard drive with the manufacturer's diagnostic tools to see if it is failing.


No I dont think BIOS is the problem as my computer would freeze as soon as I will go to the internet, otherwise it was fine. So I thought that may be ram is not enough so we just upgraded it a bit, but we are still facing the same problem.
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