At 09:10 AM 2/9/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Is this a hardware problem or software problem or both? Is the fate of
>this non-compliant drone-node to be salvaged for it's floppy, CD and HD
>and the motherboard/case carcas thrown into the trash among the other
>non-SURVPCs? Oh great hive-mind, what's wrong with my PC?
Wow, what a delightful and detailed rendition of a saga
since you clearly are willing to screw around and reinstall and try things,
here's a few ideas:
try all the other components, one at a time, on another machine to see if
one of the components is at fault
try using windows 3.11 to run it to see if it's the operating system at
fault, or even try running an alternate, dos, linux, unix. I know, not
much color or power on your dx33, windows is the primary choice for most of us.
Keep in mind that w95 on a dx33 with 16MB RAM is running it on the bottom
edge of recommendations, it doesn't do it well and WILL crash if asked to
do much more than simple text editing or one task at a time. Toss in a few
graphics or browser fun plugins and you'll go down faster than a cat tied
to a rock.
check your virtual memory settings, is the swap file sitting on a crowded
drive or partition? Is there a more empty one to which you can direct it
to allow it to expand more? does the problem occur if you swap the mobo
into a known good machine?
gee, what fun. NOT
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