This probably won't come as a surprise to some of our more experienced listers, but I'll bet most of you haven't seen such a thing - I know I hadn't.

A customer brought me a non starting IMB computer.  She'd gone before I had a chance to check it out, otherwise I might have asked her to take it away again.

It's a 486 with a 33mhz CPU, 16mb ram and a 600Mb hard drive (that's right, 600Mb).  I got it going finally, but the thing that blew my socks off is that it's running W98SE Lite!

And as I type now, it's doing an AVG scan!  Clever old thing.

It's excruciatingly slow of course - I had to empty the C:\Windows\Temp folder of 2016 files totalling 1.4MB and it took 25 mins in DOS to do it.  Still, I'm amazed it works at all.  

One query, just in case someone has seen it before;  it starts up now, which it wasn't doing before, but there's one glitch which I haven't managed to get rid of  - it throws up a type '162' error on boot-up, referring to 'Configuration change has occurred'.  This is in spite of me resetting the BIOS to it's defaults and then subsequently flashing the BIOS with the latest (1996) BIOS upgrade.

Any ideas would be welcome.

PS - I found some info about '162' errors on the IBM site - but most of them referrred to a major hardware change like a new HDD or CD being installed.  This old clunker doesn't even have a CD drive and as far as I'm aware, no other hardware has been installed recently.

TX

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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