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Hey Guys.
as you may know my Mom's box has been giving me problems with Illegal Operation errors and all kinds of IE craziness (you enter a URL and hit Enter and NOTHING happens). Before I didthe UNIX i tried everything SFC, the IE repair tool Etc. Reinstalled Windows due to not having time to do the UNIX and Mom needing box and guess what? SAME PROBLEMS AFTER FRESH INSTALL. I'm ready to pull my hair out.
What is the problem you are experiencing, in full?
Is it only - You enter a URL and hit enter and nothing comes up?
Ick. Did the normal scan for viruses and such? (boot sector virus, perhaps - though that problem doesn't strike any particular chord at the moment) After you do the install, are you able to run windows update or anything?
Windows update works fine, I scan all my winblows stuff every WEEK with updated defs so I don't get this one. And in 10 years of Winblows experience I've seen alot and this one gets me. but sometmies if you type in a URL and hit Enter it just sits there It's Winblows 98 BTWQuote:
Originally posted here by draziw
Ick. Did the normal scan for viruses and such? (boot sector virus, perhaps - though that problem doesn't strike any particular chord at the moment) After you do the install, are you able to run windows update or anything?
Are you using a dial up or broadband? (modem or NIC)
At this point I would start to suspect a hardware problem...
Edit - have you tried to navigate your computer using IE? Try File|Open|Browse to a file or folder and see if IE still locks up or whatever. May help define whether it is actually a SW or HW problem...
check all your fans. Power supply, proccesser, and case. It might be that you are just overheating. If you have diagnostics in the CMOS check and see if any are out of normal ranges, (IE temperatures, fan speed, voltages, etc,etc)
And when you say fresh install - do you mean "clean" - as in reformat, etc? Because in your post you said you "reinstalled" - if you installed over a corrupted install, you'll get the same problems 95% of the time. If you reformatted and installed clean - I'd say you've got a connectivity issue and I'd lean towards hardware at that point.
Update.
It's fine right now, so whtever causes it is something Intermittent. This is a suckpaq which means I have ZIP for diagnostic tools of any kind in te BIOS for temp. etc. the Box uses an NIC to get on (I have a 4 box LAN in my house) :)
It was a format and reinstall too
Hmmm... mine does that, too. Normally seems to be a weird DNS timeout issue... or, in the case of Yahoo, waiting on those stupid slow-ass ad server popups. Guess that's one of the reasons that I try not to use my Winblowz machines for browsing, etc.
I just thought of something. Also I've been having video problems. If the monitor goes into power save sometimes it dosen't come out. the light turns from yellow to green like is should but no display. If I reboot I'll get a really funky display and I'm not sure if the box finishes booting when it does this either. Last time it did it i had to bott it 5 times in a row to get it to boot... this is a 6 year old suckpaq so it's days may be numbered
Sounds like a good candidate for roof testing to me... ROFL
I'd suggest testing your Hard Drive and memory, those cause intermittent problems. . .Power Supply too, but not as easily tested for problems
After reading your last post - this definitely sounds like a hardware problem. On older Compaqs, they had a diagnostic partition on the HDD that also contained info needed by the CMOS. If that partition has been deleted, you have problems. Another thing to suspect is the MB. Sounds to me like you are loosing communications intermittantly with various system devices.
'Course now we've all given you half a million things to suspect and check out, and haven't nailed one down, but at least you're a little closer to a solution. (PS - I have worked on those older Compaqs, and let me tell ya; they won't withstand a 20ft drop. They just don't like that type of hardware testing...) ;)
Video or memory is my worthless guess of the evening. If it's onboard video you will have to disable it in bios and test with a different video card. I'd suggest testing the video card first then trying ram..just one at a time though.
TC
Guys....
Thanks for the Ideas... I wish i had losts of spare parts to check things with but Mom won't let me collect a whloe pile of spare parts :(
New CPU may be in order here
It might be worth a trip to a shop to get it diagnosed. Will be a lot cheaper than a new computer.
TC
my father had the same problem on his Compaq... After replacing the memory and installing a real video card, the problem dissapeared (THAT problem, NEways)...
I think you hit the nail on the head with your last comment, though... I would get her a real computer. It's just the right thing to do. :)
Rev
Just one little idea. Listen to the power supply fan closely while it accesses the HD. We had a machine at work that was doing this kind of thing and it turned out to be the Power Suplly was failing. Replaced the supply and no problems since. P.S. it was also a Win98 box. If the fan changes speed thats the problem.
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thanks guys.
I'll have to try and investigare over the weekend
I had a similar problem one time, and the problem was provoked by the tower that wasn't straigth, what it made that, when I pressed the cards with the screws to motherboard the last pins of the cards were to make bad contact and sometimes they still make bad contact.
hope this helps ( sorry for my English 8) )
Update:
Mom got this one twice today:
IEXPLORE.EXE Caused a GPF in module WDMAUD.DRV at 0001:00000013
Registers:
EAX = 00000000 CS = 27D7 E1P = 00000013 EFLAGS = 000000202
EBX = 00000000 SS = 225F ESP = 000088E2 EBP = 000088E6
ECX = 001D8014 DS = 277F ESI = 00000000 FS = 3CB7
EDX = 00000000 ES = 3497 EDI = 00000000 GS = 0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
FF 5E 12 5F 5E 8B E5 5D CA 10 00 06 57 E8 25 05
Stack Dumps:
00000000 052288FE 000027D7 00003CB7 80143497
041E001D 00000001 00D58918 8014278F 0000001D
Having looked through this thread, I think it is highly likely you have a hardware problem. GPF faults are usually caused by faulty memory (RAM), and sometimes by motherboard/power supply problems.
It is highly unlikely that it is a problem with Windows98 or the CPU itself.
Don't know the specifics of your box, but the sorts of things you normally try in this sort of situation are removing one of the memory sticks (SIMM, DIMM, whatever), and see if the problem persists.
If you have any cards (PCI or ISA) inserted into the motherboard, you can try removing them and cleaning the edge connectors, and then re-inserting them.