Hi Vee,
Lots of things could be going on here. Sounds like you have a hardware
conflict in resources somewhere or maybe a bad component. Finding bad
components is the tried and true method of replacing one at a time until
the problem stops, like those expensive auto-mechanics sometimes do to your
car. However, you gave a wild guess clue with your boot-up message. The
IDE controller line is okay, but it is suspicious it wasn't there before.
The video controller is the clue, the 9 on the end is the interrupt number
(IRQ). While 14 is the standard PRIMARY IDE IRQ, a PCI video controller
doesn't necessarily need an IRQ. In fact, I don't know what it is used for
and have never enabled IRQ's for PCI video. IRQ's are too precious on a
network. This leads me to ask, "Have you recently been tinkering with the
BIOS CMOS settings?" because you can enable / disable the video IRQ in
CMOS. My sister's boyfriend did and her computer responded just as you
describe yours. Admittedly a wild guess but I thought it something no one
else might suggest.
Hope it helps.
Tom Turak
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Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 1998 10:23 PM
It seems something is dying on my computer, but I don't know what. I
recently lost a hard drive and replaced it with a Maxtor 5.2 GB. I
loaded Windows 95b, using Fat 32. Everything seemed fine for a while,
but for the last few days it has been freezing quite frequently, mainly
when I exit a program--not the same one each time. It will not soft
boot, and the only way I can recover is to turn the computer off.
When I boot up again, I get a message that because Windows was not
exited normally, I must run scan disk. That's okay, but the message
across the top of the screen is what I do not understand. It is:
0 7 1 8086 7010 IDE Controller 14
0 8 0 1023 9660 Display Controller 9
At first I was getting only the Display Controller information, now it
is both.
Once I run scan disk it boots into Windows 95 and runs normally until it
freezes again. Last night it froze 3 times and tonight once.
Vee Richardson
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