On 6 Feb 99, at 13:52, Alain Azzam wrote:
> We used to have a win95 peer-to-peer network working perfectly with
> 8 computers connected to a rj45 10bT hub. One of the machines crashed
> recently because the user deleted her windows root folder from
> withing a dos session ;(( Knowing that we have to install windows 98
> to be Y2K compliant soon, I rebuilt the machine with windows 98.
> Since then it's been nothing but sorrow.
>
> The important thing to know is that a lot of our softwares are
> running in dos. So we have a file server holding the databases for
> these software and everyone accesses them from their machine. The
> Win98 machine keeps crashing.
>
> My questions are :
>
> - the file server is fat16 and the win98 machine is fat32 : can that
> explain the problems ?
No. Low-level details of the file system are handled by the local
machine and not shared across the network.
> - the reason for which we didn't have this setup in windows NT is
> simple : the programmers told us it wouldn't work out. I personnaly
> would prefer a windows NT setup, much more solid. Do you recommend
> against it since we use 16 bit apps in dos boxes ? But then again
> things started crashing on that computer only after we rebuilt it
> with windows 98.
Without knowing more about the applications, it's impossible to say
for sure. I think you have to take the programmers' word for it, or
insist on an NT solution.
> - here are two other changes we made when we rebuilt the machine :
> -- patched the BIOS with the latest patch from Gigabyte's web site
Make sure that your CMOS settings are all correct.
I've flashed BIOS on four kinds of machines. On two, the flash
preserved my settings. On one, it reset to defaults. And on the
Gigabyte, it left them unchanged (but no longer correctly mapped!)
so that a couple of them were garbage.
> -- installed more memory in the file server
Typically a good idea
> -- installed more memory in the windows 98 machine
Typically a good idea
> -- installed office 97 (WITHOUT SR-1 and SR-2) instead of office 95
Shouldn't be a factor....
> My plan is :
>
> - get an answer from you guys regarding the FAT32/FAT16 question
> - depending on your answer to Win NT see if it could be an option
> - do trial and error tests with the new memory added (removing it, testing
> for a day, etc.)
> - install office 97 patches
Details of the "crash" might point to a specific problem area....
David G
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