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| 1207044 | 2011-06-06 02:16:00 | Strange... according to this (en.wikipedia.org), it comes with Win98. | bot (15449) | ||
| 1207045 | 2011-06-06 03:05:00 | Does it have one or two sticks of RAM? If two, try pulling one out at a time and see what happens. Does it have a separate video card or onboard video? Haven't had a chance to open the case yet, but hopefully this arvo. Trying to cope with sick kitten, it's like caring for a baby at the moment. Also haven't been well myself. I will check all the RAM, video card etc. It has three slots, each with 128. Yesterday morning at their place, I was able to briefly get on the net with it and ran crucial scan. 384 MB is the max it will take. It is only since I bought the box and the monitor round to my place that it wouldn't work, so I guess it could be possible that the vid card got a shake up in the car. Oh well, for now, watch this space! LL |
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| 1207046 | 2011-06-06 03:17:00 | Strange... according to this (en.wikipedia.org), it comes with Win98. It may well have done originally, but as I said the lady got it cheap from some old boyfriend. So, I think he changed things in it and upgraded it to the Windows Legacy Fundamentals OS. When I saw it first last year it was only operating on 256 MB RAM and I took that out and put 3 x 128 in the three slots because that was the max it would support. It helped a little. LL |
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| 1207047 | 2011-06-06 04:17:00 | Might be better with something like Puppy Linux perhaps? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1207048 | 2011-06-06 04:37:00 | Might be better with something like Puppy Linux perhaps? +1. It has a basic web browser and documents and it's so versatile even the local computer recycling center uses it. |
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| 1207049 | 2011-06-06 05:35:00 | Ok, here is the latest in the saga. I have now got it up and running after giving it all a good clean out. Reseated the RAM cards and vid card. Got it into Safe mode. I ran Ccleaner and it picked up over 500 bits of junk. Used the registry fix and backed it up first. Got rid of P2P stuff and three tool bars. Malwarebytes came up clean. Just downloading latest Avast to to see if OS will accept it. Wouldn't accept MSSE or AVG. Avast was on it but I took it off because it was such an old version. They hadn't actually run it since I fixed it last year! Hopefully it will keep them happy for another year. LL :) |
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| 1207050 | 2011-06-06 07:08:00 | If it still struggles to load in normal Windows after what you have done so far, then maybe their user profile is corrupt. Is there a second user profile (or create one) you can try to see if that loads normally. | Jen (38) | ||
| 1207051 | 2011-06-06 08:41:00 | All seems to be sweet now. Avast loaded ok and although things take a little while to load, it is back to as normal as it's going to be. Lady is rapt because it means she won't be pestered to buy new computer straight away! | lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 1207052 | 2011-06-06 08:43:00 | Many thanks to all who contributed to this thread. LL :thanks |
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| 1207053 | 2011-06-06 12:03:00 | Many thanks to all who contributed to this thread. LL :thanks Excellent. Glad to hear it worked out. Always HTH as usual ;) |
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