Howdy.....you don't say how old the machine is.....they do just "wear out"
after a while...also it could be a virus....are you running any
antivirus?...if not your treading dangerous ground....we just lost 3.5
months of commercial graphic designs due to a klez worm that some how got
past Norton AV 2002 where I work....but we have caught and killed over 1500
attackes on our computers since the klez worm started up a few months
ago....give us more details
Alice


At 8/8/02 10:53 AM, you wrote:
>Hi, could anybody suggest to me which OS is best for small medium scale
>operations?  Medium scale I mean is, it is being used 24 (hrs) x 7 (days)
>but it is not used for a big company, a simple 24 hour convenience store.
>Currently, we are using Windows 98 SE, but sad to say, we experienced so
>many problems.  Problems like, it will simply shut down itself, and after
>restarting it, we'll do some maintenance jobs like Scandisk and Defrag.
>But weeks after, it will come back again, then more than twice it happened
>to us, that it will restart itself up, but no operation is being done, then
>it will just hang up on the next boot up.  The only solution left for us
>was to reformat the drive.  I exposed to Windows 98 SE and a bit of Windows
>2000, could anyone help me make a feasibility study which OS should I use.
>My major factors are durability (data integrity) and cost efficiency.
>Could it be possible with the hardware?  I tried to replace it twice with a
>new board but still the same.  Other factors?  Thanks.
>
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