On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:26:53 Doug & Sharon White wrote:
> I have a Cyrix 266 on a TX Pro II motherboard, 32 megs of EDO RAM, 3.2 gig
>HD, onboard video and sound, Windows 95.
>
> So far I am averaging about 3 or 4 fatal "Blue Screen of Death" crashes a
>day. I bought it as a second computer for my kids to play games on. So
>far we have not installed anything that would push the hardware
>limits.......no accelerated 3D games or the like. Most of the stuff has
>been educational games like Oregon Trail, Carmen Sandiego, Kid Pix, etc......
Hi Doug,
Could you please give us more information on the Blue Screen, such as the
message you get on the screen? Usually, there will be a driver or program
name given that is a good starting point, along with some numbers. From
there, a lot more help can be given because you (or several someone's on
this list) can go to Microsoft's Knowledge Database and do a search of the
error message. Sorry, I don't have the link for the database right off hand,
but try: http://www.microsoft.com/support/
Some other ideas, if you are going through and reformatting the drive, install
only Windows 95 and run it for awhile like that. If it runs without problems,
then install a game and run it for awhile. Keep doing that until it crashes,
and you've found your problem program.
Also, have you updated Windows 95? There are some updates to Windows
95 available at Microsoft's web site (http://www.microsoft.com) that will
help address some Y2K stuff, as well as get you up to OSR-2.
General maintenance will help as well. Delete files with the TMP extension,
doing a search in Windows Explorer for *.TMP will help that. Run Window's
scandisk and defrag as well, especially Window's scandisk.
A lot of Blue Screens happen because of driver conflicts, outdated drivers
for video or sound cards or a corrupted driver when a program tries to put
it's own drivers in place.
Best of luck,
Lance Kephart
Kephart's Korner
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