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| Thread ID: 34815 | 2003-06-24 14:27:00 | WinME broken :( | Rob99 (151) | Press F1 |
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| 154807 | 2003-06-27 22:34:00 | Well Powa according to your theory, i'm more superior because 1. i've been on this board longer than you, 2. i've posted more posts than you. It will be interesting to see if you will try to belittle a veteran on this board. To the original poster, don't listen to what Powa is saying, every one has there own opinion on OS. But thats not what your asking. WinME itself will not be causing the crashes it will be the software your running. So that we can find out whats wrong, then next time you get a Blue Screen of Death, or something crashs. Record the error message, make sure you copy the whole thing as well. Then post that message back here. You will find that from the error message many people will be able to help you. |
roofus (483) | ||
| 154808 | 2003-06-27 22:45:00 | >With Millenium Edition, you just have to accept that it will >crash at least 4 times a day. Really?? ?:| Sorry to say this, but my small dealings with ME on a computer belonging to a certain Dyan showed it to be a durable system, despite the totally destructive influence of one teenage son of Dyan who felt it was infinitely important to d/load and install some new miracle game or something on a daily basis. It would appear some hardware/people/ME combinations are good, and some are not so good. .Chris |
Chris (3346) | ||
| 154809 | 2003-06-28 00:52:00 | Rob99: As Roofus has mentioned, the cause of your BSOD are likely to be software that you have added. One of my machines runs WinME and I found that Nortons was behind my problem. Once that was pin-pointed, I was able to tweake a few settings to make it a more happy camper. These BSOD's that you have been getting, are they just after startup, during internet surfing, using applications etc. Being able to pin-point the likely culprit will aid in trouble-shooting the problem. Write down the error messages as well. Cheers Jen BTW - To all those ME disdainers, I found that WinME ran smoothly without a single BSOD for months on end. It does come down to how you treat your PC and maintain it. If I did get a BSOD, it tended to be a one-off incident - after all, they are not perfect and they all have momentary lapses of ill behaviour (XP and Linux included) :D |
Jen C (20) | ||
| 154810 | 2003-06-28 08:26:00 | I have windows millenium and defrag and scandisk once a week. However no matter what I do, I get lots of BSOD's everyday. I put it down to a bad operating system. All I'm doing is opening a few IE windows and running icq or something. Then Bam! Have to reboot the computer. This will automatically make ME crash: right click desktop -> display properties. Settings tab, click on advanced. Go into where you would change your display drivers. It starts searching for the display files. Once its done searching it asks you where the display files are located. Select the floppy drive. BAMM it hits you :D |
aroc (3256) | ||
| 154811 | 2003-06-28 08:26:00 | I have windows millenium and defrag and scandisk once a week. However no matter what I do, I get lots of BSOD's everyday. I put it down to a bad operating system. All I'm doing is opening a few IE windows and running icq or something. Then Bam! Have to reboot the computer. This will automatically make ME crash: right click desktop -> display properties. Settings tab, click on advanced. Go into where you would change your display drivers. It starts searching for the display files. Once its done searching it asks you where the display files are located. Select the floppy drive. BAMM it hits you :D |
aroc (3256) | ||
| 154812 | 2003-06-28 09:47:00 | I've been running a Compaq laptop with OEM WinME for abut 2 1/2 years. For the first twelve months it was flawless, then started BSODing. First it was only occasionally, but over about three months it got to the point where it happened several times a day. I tried the retailer, Compaq, and every newsgroup and help forum i could find with no luck until one day I saw a post from someone with similar probs, and the answer came back: 1) Go to Device manager. Delete the video driver 2) restart in safe mode. let the machine rediscover your video card. 3) restart normally I was sceptical as I had already updated the video drivers with no luck, but the poster of the information was adamant that it would fix the problem, and it did! Since then, the machine has re-developed the problem slowly every four months or so. The above fix works every time. I have no idea why. |
stevee (1780) | ||
| 154813 | 2003-06-28 11:07:00 | I have used ME for several years on 5 computers and find it just as reliable as XP. but more compatable with software. I think that your problem is a Hardware one, but first get hold of "Norton Utilities" & run "Win Doctor", it will probably come up with about 100 odd errors. Allow them to be fixed, the run "Disc Doctor" 1. Check the Bios battery. 2. Check the fans, could be overheating. 3. Remove all the cards and clean the contacts with contact cleaner. 4. Ditto the RAM cards. 5. If you have more than one RAM card, try the computer with one out. If the problem suddenly dissapears, chances are that the card you removed is faulty |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 154814 | 2003-06-29 01:22:00 | Yes all scenarios that have been depicted with ME here all related to bad drivers or faulty hardware. Once again i say POST YOUR ERROR MESSAGE EXACTLY HOW IT APPEARS and let us help you. I have been running ME for about 3 or 4 years, and the only time it crashs is when i do something stupid. So i put the challenge to all you pesimists, post your error!!!!! |
roofus (483) | ||
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