Friends on the List,
 I hope you can help one more troubleshooting novice. I recently finished
assembling my sons computer and am having quite a bit of difficulty getting
it going. (I have assembled others and not run into to much trouble.. YEAH,
SO!!! :-) It has run- sound, picture and all but only once for a short
period and was on the fritz again when started the next morning. I have
tried formatting and reloading windows and even deleting partitions and
logical drives and re doing that area of the initial setup. It is the 4th
computer in the house (or 5th if you count the old 286 in the basement) so
I was trying to build it economically and it contains some, uhm,
inexpensive parts but all new and they should work. (hopefully) Some things
I have noticed is that the RAM count at start up is inconsistent, sometimes
32768 like it is supposed to be but other times @ 1/2 that amount or around
20000 etc., just not consistent, also  it says checking NV RAM instead of
SD like it's supposed to be? What is NV? Anyway, the main problems begin as
Win. is restarting and checking for installed hardware,(I have installed
successfully from this W95CD in the past) sometimes it will freeze at this
point and I will have no choice but to reset,and it wants to run scan disk
and it finds a varying amount of data on drive c: that may be "one or more
lost files or directories but are probably just taking up space", but I
don't think so at this point. Then if I can get it through the first time
Windows 95 has been run and to the desk top screen quite often the program
menu is empty etc., it's just not loading correctly. Then the "Blue screens
of death" start, some examples of the errors are "a fatal exception OE has
occurred at 0028:c0004a64 in VXD VMM(01)=00003a64, current app will be
terminated" and another was can't access DLL at 003:00007089 and so on. I
have disabled the on MO board sound card and have no extras hooked up yet.
The system consists of Quantum 2.5 Big Foot, 32MEG SDRAM, 200MX Cyrix
processor, 24x CDROM  and Mitsumi 3 1/2 drive. I appreciate your taking the
time to read this and send any advice, direction, or hunches you might
have.    Ed Richardson   Bolivar, Ohio

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