On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 00:00:03 +0000, Detailboy wrote: > Oh great hive-mind you're my only hope. A drone-node in our collective > will not comply. What's wrong with my Gateway 2000 486sx-33, 8MB RAM, > ISA 2x-CD ROM? There is nothing you have written here to indicate that there might be anything wrong with your machine. There is something definitely wrong with your choice of operating systems. Windows 95 requires at least a 66 Mhz 486 and 16 MB RAM in order to provide anything better than extremely poor performance. I assure you that your machine could not have worked as well as it would have if you had installed Windows 3.x instead of Windows 95. You are trying to push your low-resource machine far beyond its practical limits. Your installing of the MSIE 4.x would have certainly served to downgrade its performance even further. Generally speaking, upgrading your software will downgrade your system's performance, especially if you use MicroSoft products. The only way to compensate for the increased demand on your system resources is to upgrade your entire system. Your machine should perform just fine with Windows 3.x and MSIE 3.01. The system just isn't designed to handle anything more bloated than that. I am not at all surprised that you keep getting the blue screen of death when you are trying to run all kinds of bloated software that just can't be handled by your system. Sam Heywood > Over two years ago I'd installed Win95b from CD and it worked fine with > MS-Office on a Win NT/Novell LAN -- never one problem. Then it sat > unused for about a year. I'd pulled it out of the closet sat it on its > side on the floor awaiting space on my kitchen table workbench. Trying > to manuever through the obstacle course of survivor PCs, I accidentally > knocked it over -- the crashing sound made me cringe. > When I finally got around to it I wanted to install one of the free > dial-up web access services. I chose Alta-Vista because the entire > installer fit onto one floppy. As part of the requirements I had to > upgrade Internet Explorer (IE) from 3.01 to 4.x. During the install I > kept getting blue screen crashes, IFSMGR and VxD. I also got Windows > registery error pop up crashes. > I tried re-installing IE 4.1 and continued to get crashes but after > several attempts I finally made it through the install of IE 4.1. > I then installed Alta-Vista, connected and it was really s---l---o---w, > so I shut down and upgraded the RAM to 16MB. Afterwards I didn't notice > much speed difference in Alta-Vista compared to the browsing when > connecting to my for-pay ISP. During this time I continued to get the > same blue screen and Windows registery error crashes. > On the final crash I couldn't restart at all with blue screen of death > on startup. I reformatted the HD, as well as FDISK, reinstalled Win95b > and IE4 and continued to get the same blue screen and Windows registery > error crashes. I thought perhaps the RAM SIMMS may be defective so I > switched to a different 16MB SIMM, reformatted the HD, as well as FDISK, > reinstalled Win95b and IE4 and continued to get the same blue screen and > Windows registery error crashes. > Then I thought that perhaps because this Win95b CD was labeled as > "support for USB" that there was an incompatability with my 486sx-33 ISA > bus, so I reformatted the HD, as well as FDISK, then tried Win95a and > IE4 and continued to get the same blue screen and Windows registery > error crashes. > This time I bailed on Alta-Vista and wanted to try Juno's free web > access. After making it through numerous crashes during the installs I > again switched the RAM SIMMS to a different 8MB SIMM and continued to > get the same blue screen and Windows registery error crashes. > Again I reformatted the HD, as well as FDISK, reinstalled Win95a, IE4 > and Juno 4.0 and continued to get the same blue screen and Windows > registery error crashes. I removed the modem, soundcard, reset the BIOS > to factory defaults, changed the keyboard, serial mouse to PS/2, changed > various combinations of the modem and soundcard or none at all and > continued to get the same blue screen and Windows registery error > crashes. > By this time I was suspecting the hard drive may have sustained damage > when I knocked it over. I downloaded Western Digital's Data Lifeguard > Tools v2.2, ran it as a boot floppy, 4-times and it reported NO problems > with my Caviar 2340 HD. > I looked up IFSMGR.SYS and VxD in Peter Norton's "Inside the PC, 8th > edition" and although it didn't specifically say what was wrong with my > PC, it gave information that IFSMGR.HLP is loaded directly after the > hardware layer, in the real mode layer (BIOS and DOS), and the VxDs are > loaded in the next layer, 386-protected mode. Oh yeah, now what? > In weeks past there was discussion on SURVPC about 2X CD-ROM > incompatabilities with Win 95, but it worked fine for over a year when > it was used with Win95 on this same PC. When I knocked it over did I > damage the motherboard? If I did then why doesn't Data Lifeguard Tools > have the same problem accessing the hard drive as Win 95? > 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? -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
