On Wednesday December 13, 2000, Matt wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a Pentium 120. It was happily running Windows 95 until one day
> the power went out... the UPS kicked injust fine and we were running
> along... anyway.. the UPS ran through it's cycle.. and I didn't get the
> machine shutdown before the UPS died... I had AIM, telnet open... when the
> power came back later... I was getting repeated IFSMGR blue screens... and
> it got so bad I had to re-install (no big deal didn't loose much)... did
> an fdisk and format.. and used the recovery CD that came with the syytem
> to reload it. (this worked fine for months).. but on the initial bootup..
> IFS or else VFAT errors... ARG! ok let's try win 98.. fdisk & format
> done.. then install a barebones Windows 98 cd... it was working for about
> a day, now I just get unable to load vmm32.vxd and the system won't load.
> It started out that if I hit the RESET button the computer when I got that
> error, it would then boot, but it seems to have gotten to a point now
> where it won't even boot. A completel re-install does nothing.. same
> exact error. Any ideas?
Problems that are either restricted to initial, cold
startups or that get progressively worse over a longer
period of time might be connected to a failing battery.
R.
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