Hi Virginia and all,
First, try replacing the CMOS battery on the motherboard. This will set
the BIOS settings to its defaults, so you may want to review (and
remember) any current settings in case that is not the problem. I tried
to access Micronics website - unsuccessfully. So I'm unsure what sort of
battery you may have on the board. Try using only one of the memory
modules for a while - if you still get the errors, try using the other
one by itself. 64MB of RAM is usually sufficient for W98SE. Try
replacing the A drive ribbon cable too. Everything made by man will
eventually conk out, motherboards, RAM, and floppy drives included. :-(
For sluggishness, try deleting your temporary internet files and most of
your Windows Temp Folder files. HTH,
Chuck
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:17:36 +0100 (BST)
From: Virginia Da Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCWorks: Memory problems & others!
P166, 128 Mb RAM, Win98SE -- giving enormous problems!
1. Floppy drive
The problems started with intermittent floppy drive failure - sometimes
it
worked, then all of a sudden, in Dos it would give a "drive unavailable"
message, or in Windows the whole machine would crash. On next boot-up,
often after I had fiddled with the connections inside the machine,
sometimes everything would be OK and the drive would become accessible -
then frequently fail again. I assumed either poor connections or a
defective drive.
I took the drive out and tested it extensively on another
machine - no problems. <snipped>
2. Memory (an even more serious problem)
Then one day after finding the machine terribly sluggish in Windows, I
discovered that the memory had gone down to 64MB instead of 128MB. On
next
boot-up it was back up to 128 MB. <snipped>
Having pulled the guts out of the machine, I proceeded to test the memory
modules (2 x 64 MB DIMMs). Each worked individually, even when changing
the
slots, showing up as 64 Mb. <snipped>
Do any of you think the problem might be with my motherboard?? (Micronics
Twister AT - April 1997). Do mobos just "conk out", or parts of them stop
functioning?
Sorry for the long posting -- I'm sure someone can help.
Virginia
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