Well, this win95 machine is about a year old, and it's been doing this ever
since I got it, that was in october last year. Even so I'll try your
suggestion and let you know how it goes.
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> From: Garry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [SURVPC] I tried it and it still didn't work, help!
> Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 9:35 AM
>
> Stephen Lloyd wrote:
> > I tried getting my dealer to reseat the memory cards
> > but the problem is still there. ... in the morning,
> > the computer boots up to a certain point, and then
> > suddenly reboots and goes in to safe mode.
> > 20 minutes warmup time at the dos prompt seems to do
> > the trick, the computer is warmed up enough to boot
> > properly.
>
> Your hard disk may have a temperature sensitivity problem.
> With age, the actual read/write head armature assembly
> travel distances change when cold or hot. If the condition
> is extreme, it may not fully correct, and you just have to
> let it warm up.
>
> Usually, however, the condition happens gradually, and can
> be corrected by recalibrating the centerline of the drive's
> tracks. Steve Gibson (Gibson Research Corp, www.grc.com)
> diagnosed this and solved with with SpinRite years ago.
>
> I can recommend SpinRite highly. It has salvaged a few
> drives for me. It handles the "head drift" that occurs
> with age. I used SpinRite to fix the drive in my 286
> when the cold/hot thing happened to me.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Garry
>
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