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May 31, 2000 at 03:16 AM
lori

Win95

by lori . Updated 25 years, 9 months ago

I installed a new monitor on my computer. It worked fine except I needed to update the display adapter drivers so that I would have more color options. I updated the driver and changed the settings to 16 bit,( I know now that it should have been 24). I rebooted, and the hard drive always goes to scan disk now. I chose to delete the fragmented files and to skip the undo disk. Then, the Win95 startup screen appears and the Windows startup sound is heard and then just a black screen.
I am beginning to think that the hard drive is just shot. Before the recent problem, when I would see how much space I had on my hard drive, it would show that there was no space used at all, even though I have Windows 95, Office 2000 etc loaded onto my machine. I have also had lack of memory warnings from time to time. I totally dumpoed my machine a few months ago thinking that the problems might be Windows related, but the same problems still exist.
Do you think that the problems that I have experienced when changing the c

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