Windows Directory keeps disappearing. HELP ! ! !

TheNite

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OK, here whats happening,
I installed an STB volocity 16mb card and upgraded to Win ME.

I notice a couple weeks ago the MHZ during CMOS read 125Mhz at least once but went back to 166Mhz. This was prior to the upgrade.. (Heh , not much of an upgrade huh?) anyway .. I formated the C: drive and loaded Win ME with no problems ran smooth. The CPU was reading 166Mhz at the time. I had left for the day ,computer off. When I got back I turned it on and the CPU read 125Mhz agian. I pushed restart and then the CPU read 166Mhz agian.
Windows Me loaded and seemed to be fine. Then I notice I had a problem running Outlook Express. I figure that out. When I uninstall the New Detinator drivers. I figured it was the auto-install exe they had. So I DL'ed the manual zip file instead and loaded those drivers. This time when I restarted WinMe comes up with an error loading something during startup after it loads the Step by step almost right after WIN.exe is executed. The error is so brief you can't read it and WinME say "It is OK to ShutDown".
Mean while CMOS still reports 125Mhz.

Am I overheating?
Are those Nvidia drivers causing this?
I made a Time stamp of the last know good configuration and SafeMode doesn't see it?
Is this comon with WinMe?

I did run Scandick and found the usual Longfilename-error and Reporting avalible freespace incorrectly-error prior to Setup of WinME.

Hope this is enough info. If someone could help me out I would be most greatfull.
Thanks
 

TheNite

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bump. problem hasn't gone away.
Actually it's getting worse. Now I'm missing "or it corrupted" the VMM32.VXD and IFSHLP.sys. I can't even get into safemode.

 

TheNite

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And How can the entire Window directory just disappear?
This time , Running Fdisk . I changed the Voltage and clockspeed so I can get 150Mhz. The setting I change it to is for 200Mhz. *wierd*..

I am re-installing WinMe.
My asumption is that either my harddrive is weak, My power suply is tired, or my CPU is messed up. Anyone know how to test this , without another classic baby-AT chipset and case lying around?