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Article #3188Bizarre crash! Cant turn off computer
From: TM
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:00
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System crashed. have a celery 300a, abit bh6, FUJI 8.4 HD, ati98 v/c, & 64 sdram. System is 1 1/2 months old. Tower case would NOT allow me to turn it off with the power button. Preceeding this is the blue screen after 'tried' to run a diagnostic program to test the ram. this is intermittent. i opened up the case removed the battery. was allowed to reboot only after 3 attempts with only the hard drive light on. I have to reboot about three times to get it to kick in sometimes. Possible drive, ram, motherboard or combo of problems? CMOS virus? have had many corrupt files. most recent crash after d/l ram (dos) checker from a tech site. checked for virus with mcafee online. error messages varied including but not limited to: "vfat device inititalizationfailed, device or resource required by fat not present or is unavailable" "explorer causes general postion fault in module DIBENG.DLL @005.00378.." "OE EXCEPTION occurred @0028:C004a9ba in VXD (FAT 01) 000099D2. This was called from 0028: C004ar33 in VXFD FAT (01) 0009F43. I reformatted my drive several times since last month when "PARTITION MAGIC 4.0" messed up my drive. I recreated my partitions using fdisk about two separate times, each time using different percentages. [2 partitions only, three with partition magic]. fuji doesnt recommend low level format. scan disk shows nothing. tends to get worse after disk deframenter. Upon reinstalling win98 on c: partition, everything froze early when it when to look for the installed devices. Please help as i dont trust my dealer. If possible, please reply directly. Thanks TM Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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