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Article #1470Re: Aaaarrrrrgggggghhhhh! Windows 98...
From: Matthew McDonald
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 00:00
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On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 20:06:30 GMT, angular_velocity@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > >> Then it all happened. Got fatal error type messages every few minutes, >> computer wouldn't talk to printer, Netscape wouldn't retain my >> subscribed newsgroups, tried a defrag and the whole thing collapsed in >> the middle of it. > >I'm a day late and a dollar short on this, but here is my $.02 worth ... > >A very similar thing happened to me on my kid's computer. I attempted to >re-install Win95 because I became so frustrated with Win98, but it exhibited >similar problems too. I finally discovered that I had a heat problem inside >of the case. Win98 (95 too) makes the cd-rom and hard drive spin alot for a >long time when being installed ... and more heat is generated than normal. >Once I opened the case and pointed a floor fan inside, then everything went >smooth as silk. hahahahahahaha... Funniest post I've seen in ages... Regards Matthew -- ____________________________________________________________ Matthew McDonald Editor MobileWorld http://www.mobileworld.org/ Gold Coast, Australia_____________________________________
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1072ea,cb256b0342a7db55 X-Google-Attributes: gid1072ea,public X-Google-Thread: 1076d4,cb256b0342a7db55 X-Google-Attributes: gid1076d4,public X-Google-Thread: 10a0c5,cb256b0342a7db55 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a0c5,public X-Google-Thread: 1070cf,cb256b0342a7db55 X-Google-Attributes: gid1070cf,public From: matthew@mobileworld.org (Matthew McDonald) Subject: Re: Aaaarrrrrgggggghhhhh! Windows 98... Date: 1999/01/25 Message-ID: <36ac2d09.1052537797@news.fan.net.au> X-Deja-AN: 436606504 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: dialup-nas1-05.gc.fan.net.au Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3694260E.91F65ECD@mira.net> <7881bt$502$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: MobileWorld Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: matthew@mobileworld.org Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc,alt.windows98,microsoft.public.win98.pre-release,aus.consumers