The problem could be somewhere in the BIOS. I would try setting it to a
"fail safe" (or whatever it might be named in the computer) mood and see
what happens. If that works, you can either leave it set that way or start
tweaking it.

I had this happen once and found that the computer speed was somehow set way
too low. Also, 128 MB RAM is on the low side. I've found that 256 MB for
Windows 98 and 512 MB for XP, as minimums, work good.

Tom Mayer



I am working on a dell computer pentium 4 1.6 mghtz with 128 mb of ram. The
computer stopped responing completly, so they brought it to me and I could
not get it to start even in safe mode. it would go so far and then say
windows is shutting down to prevent damage to your computer. I wrote zero's
to the hard drive and then reinstalled windows which took several hours.
what I mean is when it say 33 minutes remaining to load files it took
several hours instead of 33 minutes.Once I finally got windows loaded it is
just really slow, Like for something that should just take seconds take
sevearal minutes. what I mean is just clicking on the start menu and the
start menu should just pop up it takes several minutes for it to pop up and
then you click on control panel and it takes another several minutes to open
the control panel. Any help will be greatly appreciated as to what would
make this computer so slow. Thanks for any Help. Leander Haffner

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