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eagleschest
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April 4th, 2004 18:00
win 98se keeps rebooting
moved from one house to other house, set computor up pluged in booted up ok to disk top, shputs down with in 2 seconds and restartes over and over. can boot to safe node ok. went to system properties, under preformance memory 128 mb of ram systems resoures 84% free, file system, some drives are useing ms-dos compatibilty. virtural memory ms-dos compatbility mode. disk compression, not instaled. pc cards no pc card sockets installed. dialoge box under that reads as, compatibility-mode paging reduces overall system preformance. drive a is useing ms-dos compatilitly mode file system. drive c is useing ms-dos compatibility mode file system. have formated drive c and reinstalled win 98se. same message. have reset all cards, [dell video card, soundblaster 1024 card ] removed modem. no other cards installed. dell 3.5 floppy, dell cd rom ,zip drive all factory installed, system about 4 years old all from dell, have not had no problems with system to now. have other dell systems about as old and are working fine.
JIM
eagleschest
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Posted April 6th, 2004 11:00
Hay Jimw why the heck should I pay you or anyone else $10.00 for a soulation that may not work.
This is a scam and has been reported. and hope they kick you off this forum. This is realy low praying off people
in mead , for money.
Eagleschest
Did you follow his advice and check the cabling inside the computer to make sure everything was secure. It would also be a good time to check everything else from the processor to the expansion cards to make sure they are seated properly. Sometimes during a move things get bumped around and are no longer making good contact.
Reference the pay-per-view compatibility mode troubleshooting advice..... here is a link to Microsoft's web site and it's free:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;130179
- eagleschest, what are you talking about? I have no affiliation with Experts Exchange, I'm not a member of Experts Exchange, and I had no difficulty viewing the article I referred you to. Perhaps you didn't hit the "Page Down" key enough times to get past the advertising?
Apology welcome, but not expected.
JimMessage Edited by jimw on 04-06-2004 04:59 PM
eagelschest,
I guess you are just too lazy to page down to see the answer. If everyone we tried to help were as grateful as you are and responded like you have, none of us would be here to help. Change your attitude or don't expect us to help you.
Steve
jwatt
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Posted April 4th, 2004 21:00
Did that message appear before you moved the system? If it didn't, open up the machine and make sure all the cables to both the hard disk and floppy are securely seated on both ends. "Compatibility mode" implies that the disk subsystem is being run in 16-bit mode, rather than Win98's normal 32-bit mode, because of a problem detected with trying to operate the disk controller in 32-bit mode.
I also found this thread at Experts-Exchange.com relating to Win98 compatibility mode problems. The thread contains several promising-looking suggestions, and pointers to several Microsoft articles about compatibility problems.
Jim