Not an answer, but another symptom:

on a pentium-133, 16meg, which is mostly used for games, frequent
game crashes ripe out chunks of c:\windows, and only diskedit helps, with 16
files lost forever. 1) Anyone knows why? 2) any other method of restoring files
that are wiped clean from their dirs?

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......
>
>         Nothing I have tried so far has been able to keep the system from
> crashing.  And we are not just talking crash and reboot.......we are
> talking crash, lock up, destroy Windows drivers files, refuse to reboot...
>
>         I have reloaded the OS on this machine 5 times (including 2 total
> reformats of drive C......starting right from scratch).......and now today
> it has crashed and burned again and I am going to have to do a complete
> reload again.
>
>         Is this common with games for them to blow up and eat chunks of the OS for
> lunch?
>
>         Anybody have any idea as to where to start trying to trouble shoot
> something like this?
>
>         Doug........

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