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Article #292Re: Win95 installation freezes : Hardware problem ?
From: Walter R. Boley
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 00:00
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Matt, freezeup on safe mode sounds like one of your devices installed has the same interupt as another driver device, cd-roms or sound cards are good for that. You need to check all interupts and make changes. Walt Matt West wrote: > gav@world-net.co.nz (Gav) wrote: > > >If you're having problems starting after the setup runs ok then it's > >likely that a Plug n Play device is conflicting with a legacy device. > >Try starting in safe mode (hit F8 at the "starting Windows 95" > >message) and setting up devices manually. If it starts ok in safe > >mode but keeps hanging on rstart in normal mode then try removing all > >extra hardware (sound card, network card, modem etc) & restart. Put > >the cards back in one by one until you find the one causing the > >problem. > > Even safe mode freezes at the Windows 95 startup screen. > Only the minimum hardware is present (ie. memory SIMMs , PCI graphics > card, floppy, CD-ROM and hard disk). > > Matt West > Technidraft Ltd, The Didcot Enterprise Centre > Southmead Industrial Park, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 7PH, UK > Tel. 01235 511 770 Fax. 01235 511 771
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10dc12,50f3d10d1b6b2224 X-Google-Attributes: gid10dc12,public X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,50f3d10d1b6b2224 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 10d516,50f3d10d1b6b2224 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d516,public X-Google-Thread: 107cdf,50f3d10d1b6b2224 X-Google-Attributes: gid107cdf,public From: "Walter R. Boley" <wboley@gte.net> Subject: Re: Win95 installation freezes : Hardware problem ? Date: 1998/03/11 Message-ID: <6e61vo$cuj$1@gte2.gte.net> X-Deja-AN: 332962634 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3505799d.114182756@news.demon.co.uk> <6e49ir$d4o@bolivia.earthlink.net> <3505b6e1.1137912@207.68.144.15> <350b5c3f.172209137@news.demon.co.uk> To: Matt West <mpw@technidraft.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: A.A.A. Rental Equipment X-Auth: C107D95D139684C355CA8491 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: wboley@gte.net Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup.win95,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,demon.tech.pc,microsoft.public.windows95.oemdsp.preinstall