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| Thread ID: 25869 | 2002-10-14 00:21:00 | '98SE frequent crashes linked with "unerease" | Clueless (181) | Press F1 |
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| 88975 | 2002-10-14 00:21:00 | I'm having a wee problem with my dear Vanessa, the '98 box.... Every now and then, (daily) Vanessa crashes for no apparent reason. It will happen as i open some new program, and it doesn't seem to matter which one, and then everything falls apart, rapidly. It seems the internet applications fall apart first, but then theres not much on Vanessa that is not an internet app. I end up killing the dying apps with ctrl+alt+del, and try to reboot. As V shuts down various non descript "this (unidentified) prog not responding" dialog boxes pop up, the only one of which identitifies itself is "unerease". i "end task" them all, wait as the "windows is shutting down" screen freezes in front of me, go and make some ki, eat it, come back, look further at the "windows is shutting down" screen, push a pencil into the wee hole the reset button hides behind, and start again Any clues as to what's wrong or what i should be looking for? |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 88976 | 2002-10-14 04:20:00 | "Unclean unclean unclean". I think you have a virus or a programme which has "undisciplined" memory management (memory leakage). Something is munching up your memory. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 88977 | 2002-10-14 04:26:00 | It' probably 98 itself .. hee hee :D Best fix is to save all yr data , format & install windows again ... Otherwise.. run msconfig (i think 98 has it? if not I'm sorry) and uncheck all those programs that loads during startup and pin point which one is the culprit cheers |
mashimaro (2168) | ||
| 88978 | 2002-10-14 04:28:00 | Try going to http://www.superrsoft.com and download Super Rabbit Magic Set Install it and then run the option "AutoRun". Deselect anything that's no absolutely neccesary, such as AntiVirus progs. reboot and see what difference it makes |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 88979 | 2002-10-14 04:41:00 | About an hour ago, i was dowloading from a newsgroup and SBnews robot kindly stopped itself in it's tracks to let me know that i was dangerously low in HDD space on C: (windows used to do that, but seems to have forgotten that trick) i just moved a few gig of music video to the other drive, so hopefully things will improve. >>Otherwise.. run msconfig (i think 98 has it? if not I'm sorry) and uncheck all those programs that loads during startup and pin point which one is the culprit Yes 98 has msconfig, i won't do anything too drastic there till tomorrow, just in case the shortage of HDD space was what threw things out, and things are OK now |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 88980 | 2002-10-14 04:46:00 | nothing in the msconfig list that i wouldn't want there. If it remains unstable and rabbitsoft doesn't do it, it looks like back-up, reformat, and reinstall time...... again! |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 88981 | 2002-10-14 04:49:00 | GO FORMAT.COM!!! Hooray for the Format.com!!! :p | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 88982 | 2002-10-14 04:55:00 | Run the monitor (somewhere like "SystemTools" and see what memory is being used. We had a case here where someone was downloading big files, and the antivirus was trying to get the whole file in memory (without checking whther the OS was actually allocating more memory). It just used more memory. Eventually it all falls over. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 88983 | 2002-10-14 04:56:00 | whats so great about this site? (http://www.format.com/) You've lost me Chill |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 88984 | 2002-10-14 04:58:00 | The FORMAT.COM I know is a programme, not a site. | Graham L (2) | ||
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