🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: alt.comp.hardware
Article #3188

Bizarre crash! Cant turn off computer

#3188
From: TM
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:00
45 lines
2447 bytes
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.
Technical Details
Message-ID: <7kk13b$sac$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: f5f89,fdf12d0624dcd4ee
X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public
X-Google-Thread: 10dc42,fdf12d0624dcd4ee
X-Google-Attributes: gid10dc42,public
From: TM <tom_1@my-deja.com>
Subject: Bizarre crash! Cant turn off computer
Date: 1999/06/21
Message-ID: <7kk13b$sac$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
X-Deja-AN: 491898171
X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x30.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 142.194.61.227
Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Jun 21 00:30:34 1999 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,intel.microprocessors.celeron
X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)