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Iz Kuzara <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 10 Mar 1998 14:13:30 +1100
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Dear All -- Please enlighten me about my system problem and suggest
anything that will help me solve them --

SYSTEM:

PII 233MHZ
operating Win95B
EPoX EP-61LXA-M motherboard
SBW32 Soundcard
HP Scanjet 3c
Matrox Millenium II
3.2 Western Digital HDD on Primary Controller (as Master)
with 2.5 Quantum Siriocco HDD (as Slave)
5.1 Maxtor HDD on Secondary Controller (as Master)
with HP CD-RW 7100i (internal, as Slave)

Somehow, I was able to trace my I/O 378 original problem through a
secondary parallel port card I had installed in one of the ISA bus which
I wanted to use for my Zip Drive. I removed the problematic port and the
error disappeared. But I still have the same secondary error later on as
the computer continued on booting which says:

One or more of your hard disk drives may have a bad sector. Press any
key to start ScanDisk.

I wasn't given another choice in the matter, so I press any key and it
automatically run ScanDisk. (If Norton 3 is running, it would have gone
to the equivalent version of Norton's but I had since deleted the
program from this computer for the moment). During the first few times,
I let it run ScanDisk. It never finds any problems with my HDDs at all.
I soon tire of running ScanDisk and just exit the program everytime.
(Once in a while if I am busy with other things I let it run its
course.) So I cannot say I did not give it a chance, eh?

Anyoldwho, when it goes to Win95, it will blink on me with the error/s :

DISK WRITE ERROR:

Unable to write to Drive C:
Data or Files maybe lost.

Press any key to continue.

Originally, it will blink at me with the same errors about 3 times. I
keep pressing any key and it will bring me back to my desktop, till it
stopped blinking at me with that same error.

I will appreciate it very much if someone can reply to this post. Any
suggestions? Thanks a million!

Iz Kuzara

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