Mike,

Could be a power problem, possibly the power supply itself or the power
coming in to the computer. Make sure she is using a good quality surge
suppressor.
Another possibility is the computer is being turned off while still in
Windows instead of being properly shut down.

Dennis Thiel




>Hello to all
>
>I have a machine that I built from pieces and parts and gave to my son's
>girlfriend so they could talk interstate via e-mail.  Here is the problem
>
>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 managed to recover the system using the Microsoft Site information and
the
>System.1st file.
>
>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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