From the symptoms you have described in your post it sounds like either the
machine is crashing allot or not being shutdown properly. The other times I
have seen errors like this is with memory improperly used (pc66 memory used
in place of PC 100 memory). also trying to overclock a system can run into
the same kind of errors. I am guilty of that I overclocked my P233 to 266
and all was well until I had to let my SO have the DIM and I used her EDO
memory. I was having all kinds of those type errors.after I put the system
back to the designated speed it ran just fine. HTH

Brian Coe
CM Productions


>On the original setup of the machine, I had a 486/dx2-66 Intel and unknown
>motheroboard. It also has a 2.1 gig Maxtor drive(used) 24mb ram, and Win95
>rel 2.5
>
>She returned the machine to me with a recurring problem that on startup it
>would give an error that the registry could not be properly read, restart to
>recover from backup registry.  She would restart, with the same error
>message.  Same error message in Safe Mode.

>I then put in a new motherboard, and pentium 166 chip.  I ran a virus
>scanner against the drive, scandisked the drive w/ surface test and found no
>errors.
>
>Now, 2 weeks later, she has just returned the machine to me with the same
>problem.  Apparently the System.dat and System.da0 files are corrupted and I
>will have to restore again from the system.1st file.
>
>Can anyone give me a suggestion as to why the registry should become corrupt
>in this manner, and even to the point of the backup being unusable?  She has
>not installed any software since I built the machine.
>
>Any suggestion will be pursued.
>
>Thanks
>
>Mike Buraczewski

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