Hi all,
My computer has been enjoying to annoy me since mid summer. Let's start from the beginning... But first my specs
celeron 366
abit bp6 mobo
196MB of RAM
50GB of space(1 WD 20.5 7200RPM drive, 1 30GB Maxtor 7200RPM drive - both ata66)
Toshiba DVD-ROM drive
New Plextor 12x10x32(my new problem)
Win98SE
drawing tablet(not setup since last OS install)
Elsa erazor iii
realtek ethernet card
soundblaster live
dvd controller
So I was sittin' around this past summer and I got my hands on a copy of WinME, the one just before the final release version. After a bit of a hassle installing it I had this odd problem where "media" wouldn't run while I was trying to do other things. Such as playing mp3's while surfing the net or working on projects. Mpeg's/avi's that would creash randomly, my final verdict was screwy sound drivers.
Skip to a couple days ago and I get my new plextor in the mail. I awe at its speed posibilities. After installing it I try and make a CD-RW. I set it up and run a test, it crashes during the test run. I restart the program, now it gets through, so I go to actually make the CD, crashes. Now I have an idea, maybe I can go back to Win98SE and get rid of all my problems... So I begin the task of getting rid of WinME, after formatting the c: drive, I get a nice clean install, I start installing things, everything seems to be working perfectly, no media crashes, no hardware conflicts. I' back in business.
Now I get bold and decide to make that CD again, there's nothing stopping me this time, I start the burn and walk away for a minute, I notice the cache is diminishnig rapidly and then popping back up, only to dimish again, thankfully I have BURN-proof, and a CD-RW, not a CD-R(then I'd have a coaster.) I realize this isn't going to be as quick as expcted and go to bed, letting my roommate know to remove the CD when it pops out.
*Yawn* - I awake to find the CD-RW closed, success! - or not, apparently the computer tried to go into standby mode, the CD was taking so long. Doh! well all that happened was the program crashed right? Wrong. I reboot the machine and poof, freeze on the boot-up. So now I'm at the actual question, waht might be the problem, I'm at work so I can't really look at the machine right now, but I'm curious as to why it won't reboot, drivers? maybe somethig got corrupted when it crashed?... why does it crash so much? should I check my memory? maybe my hard drive is getting old and needs a low level format? any ideas would be much appreciated, and thank got my linux box is running, otherwise I'd have no way to check up on this later.... Thank ever so much.
My computer has been enjoying to annoy me since mid summer. Let's start from the beginning... But first my specs
celeron 366
abit bp6 mobo
196MB of RAM
50GB of space(1 WD 20.5 7200RPM drive, 1 30GB Maxtor 7200RPM drive - both ata66)
Toshiba DVD-ROM drive
New Plextor 12x10x32(my new problem)
Win98SE
drawing tablet(not setup since last OS install)
Elsa erazor iii
realtek ethernet card
soundblaster live
dvd controller
So I was sittin' around this past summer and I got my hands on a copy of WinME, the one just before the final release version. After a bit of a hassle installing it I had this odd problem where "media" wouldn't run while I was trying to do other things. Such as playing mp3's while surfing the net or working on projects. Mpeg's/avi's that would creash randomly, my final verdict was screwy sound drivers.
Skip to a couple days ago and I get my new plextor in the mail. I awe at its speed posibilities. After installing it I try and make a CD-RW. I set it up and run a test, it crashes during the test run. I restart the program, now it gets through, so I go to actually make the CD, crashes. Now I have an idea, maybe I can go back to Win98SE and get rid of all my problems... So I begin the task of getting rid of WinME, after formatting the c: drive, I get a nice clean install, I start installing things, everything seems to be working perfectly, no media crashes, no hardware conflicts. I' back in business.
Now I get bold and decide to make that CD again, there's nothing stopping me this time, I start the burn and walk away for a minute, I notice the cache is diminishnig rapidly and then popping back up, only to dimish again, thankfully I have BURN-proof, and a CD-RW, not a CD-R(then I'd have a coaster.) I realize this isn't going to be as quick as expcted and go to bed, letting my roommate know to remove the CD when it pops out.
*Yawn* - I awake to find the CD-RW closed, success! - or not, apparently the computer tried to go into standby mode, the CD was taking so long. Doh! well all that happened was the program crashed right? Wrong. I reboot the machine and poof, freeze on the boot-up. So now I'm at the actual question, waht might be the problem, I'm at work so I can't really look at the machine right now, but I'm curious as to why it won't reboot, drivers? maybe somethig got corrupted when it crashed?... why does it crash so much? should I check my memory? maybe my hard drive is getting old and needs a low level format? any ideas would be much appreciated, and thank got my linux box is running, otherwise I'd have no way to check up on this later.... Thank ever so much.
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