Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:51:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Cryptic Message at Boot - W2K
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This machine is 1999-vintage, so the BIOS probably supports >8GB drives.
Ah... If that's the case then you wouldn't need drive overlay, and wouldn't
be a good test subject to troubleshoot the problems I've been seeing.
> As far as Scandisk goes, I rarely run it. The L100 is very stable with
> W2K, and my extremely limited understanding of IDE HDDs suggests that >
> it's not necessary to do more than the occasional defrag, which I do
> under W2K's Disk Management.
Well it's W98 I'm having problems with, and the reason why I've gone to the
110 motherboard and W2K. Pushing W98 to do all of the audio work I've been
doing with MP3s on the 70CT was seeing W98 crash at least once a day on a
regular basis, and many days saw more crashes than I'd care to enumerate.
And Scandisk usually runs automatically after crashes unless it's disables
in msdos.sys, so you'd have seen it more often if you'd been having similar
problems. I'd always exit it in DOS, and run it from Windows as the memory
management in W98 makes the scan of 30GB worth of files, most MP3s, go a
lot faster.
Guess W98 on your system(s) has been stable enough not to have do have
dealt with crashes and Scandisk running in DOS a lot. That was the case
for me too before I loaded Win98SE on the 70 and started playing around
with MP3s. The SE-less copy of Win98 on the 70 was always very stable.
Funny... David C. seems to have had the opposite experience, tho' he was
using SE on his 110. I msut say that so far W98SE does seem to be working
nicely on this 110 system.
Matt
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