Never seen this before

[Kaosjester]

I'm doing some computer work for a friend. They called me up and said there computer just kept crashing and wouldn't load. I went over and took a look at it. When windows loaded some program came up with a BSOD and then an invalid page fault. I loaded in safe mode and edited the msconfig to load in fewer things at startup. reboot and windows loads. i try and open up anything explorer crashes. She's running windows 98 on a couple of years old compaq. when i went back into safe mode and looked perused through her system in the control panel. I got this error message that read:

"Compatibility mode paging reduces overall system performance
Drive A is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system
Drive C is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system
Drive D is using MS-DOS compatibility mode file system"

are those normal for safe mode or is that what keeps causeing the computer to crash in normal mode? If that is my problem are there any ideas on what causes that and is there any way to fix it other then slaping a quick-restore onto her computer?

 

[Vegito]

had that when i dont load the via drivers.. so i dunno...

 

[Texun]

Got any DOS drivers loaded, like for the sound card or mouse?

I've had that before and there were a copuple of things I had to do.

First, not all partitions were formatted when Win was installed. Was in a hurry to get it going so figured I would format later.

Second, loaded DOS drivers with the setup on my Sound Card and mouse. Removed them and it worked.

R