At 07:12 PM 11/24/2002, you wrote:
>A couple of weeks ago, I asked about "Fatal Exception". I got some answers
>and have just gone back to the computer and when I started it, this time it
>loaded itself right to the desktop without a Fatal Exception and in Normal
>Mode. I couldn't believe it, but then it froze on the desktop straight after
>the "Welcome to Windows" screen loaded on it. Would anybody know why it's
>doing this now. In the BIOS settings in PnP, IRQ numbers 3,4 and 7 are set
>to Legacy ISA , IRQ's 5,9,10,11,12,14 and 15 are set to PCI/ISA Pnp ,
>and the rest are DMA numbers 0,1,3,5,6, and 7 set to PCI/ISA Pnp. The PNP OS
>has "NO" marked against it's installation. The computer is only 5 years old.
>The only thing it's doing is showing an "unknown" monitor which is set to
>default, but the computer ran fine with this before. Can somebody please
>help. Thank you.
My first thought here is you have a hardware failure... it could be one of
numerous things. I would download DIAG from our website and run this
utility on your system checking your motherboard, CPU, ram memory and
hard drives. Be sure you check your hard drives thoroughly.
http://freepctech.com/rode/009.shtml
Make sure your hardware is not the issue first and then you can turn your
attention to the operating system...
Bob Wright
The NoSpin Group
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