Rick wrote;


> I have a friends computer (Pentium 100, 32 megram, 1 gig hdd) on
> which she is running win98 plus Word and Excel 2000! The thing
> crashes regularly about every ten to fifteen minutes. It just turns off
> and we go through scandisk and reboot. I have formatted the drive
> and reloaded win98 twice and it still does it. I did try win95a and
> the thing worked fine
>

To which Don responded;


> 32 mb ram is not enough for 98.  It was marginal for 95.  Go to at least 64 mb,
> and better yet 128 mb.
>

My backup computer (now my wife's) is a P90 Compaq.  It's running Win98
on 32 Meg of ram and works fine, though a bit slow.  I've got a few
questions regarding the computer Rick's working on;

1) Have you run it with a bare install of Win98?
2) Is there a separate swap partition (made a big difference on mine in
Win98)?
3) If the answer to 1 is no, how much space is left on the 1 Gig HD
after everything is  installed?
4) Does it crash even if left alone?

While I totally agree with Don that more memory is in order, I'm not
sure that memory is causing the crashes.  With Win95A on the P90,
running 16 Meg of ram, the computer ran like molasses with constant
access to the swap partition, but it still didn't crash.  Taking it up
to 32 Meg allowed the P90 to operate at the breakneck speed it's known
for and I had no problem with Win95B or Win98.

Art

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