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Date: | Thu, 15 Oct 1998 02:12:37 -0400 |
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Tom Turak wrote:
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> It repeatedly locked up in win95. I checked CMOS and
> someone had adjusted many of the settings. I set all the
> CMOS settings to the ones TMC recommends, this board's
> manual is pretty explicit.
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> Now the system locks up about every 48 hours. Its on 24 / 7.
> When I re-boot, the scandisk standard test insists that
> scandisk cannot fix the errors unless a thorough scan is run.
> However, a thorough test never finds any errors to report. If I run
> scandisk again it will finish the standard test without asking that
> the thorough test be run.
> The only software loaded is Microsoft Office 97 and Explorer.
> Someone sits at this PC 8 hours a day and he never reports GPF's,
> illegal operations, or any other software crashes. The freezing tends
> to happen when the system is idle, like at night or while he is on the
> phone, but that is only following the laws of probability, since it's idle
> 90% of the time.
Make sure there's nothing like Find Fast, Office Fast Start, any office stuff
period in the Startup folder. Check the settings of the APM in CMOS and in 95.
is it connected to a phone line? Check the modem drivers.
HTH
Jose
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