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by q56

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OS: WIN98SE/350mhz/256RAM: recently installed WIN98SE and e'er since, when I'm loading software or running apps, my computer goes "BOING!" -- literally -- and crashes or at least interrupts my downloads/installs/apps. Thought it might be display related: nVidia Vanta, but checked HD and even reformatted HD and reloaded all, but problem still recurs. Have never experienced this under previous OS: WIN98 w/same apps and hardware, so am wondering. Thought it might be Zone Alarm, but for the life of me can't TS this problem. Any ideas not involving violence?

THX/GJB_

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by oz_media

Non-violent you say, hmmm. Toughie.

Your computer only goes BOING when there's an error either by user or program.

If you are not seeing an error, I assume you've tried disbling Zone Alarm, your best bet is to try shutting doen processes until you know what is causing the errors.

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del once, this opens the task manager. Here you will see everything that's loaded and running. Try shutting them all down except explorer and see what happens. Then it a process of elimination to determine what's crashng.

Another thing to try is putting your Win98 SE CD in the drive and clicking START>RUN then type sfc.exe then hit Enter. It will run System File Checker that lookesfor damaged, deleted moved or altered system files.

Have fun,
OM

by q56

Well Mr. Wizard, yep I've run w & w/o ZAP; on DSL and found out "client foundation" -- a part of the "connection mgr" -- is known to cause such instabilities, but still occurs after deleting this; so we're looking into it the hard way: piece by piece as you suggest. Any other ideas still accepted. Nitro is on order. Doesn't seem to matter which app is running or not running so far: Word, Paint Shop, or just I-Explorer: wham bam BOING! and it all goes south ... I'll work on it, but feared it might be a HD or other hardware problem and hoped someone would have an idea: got tons of error messages on most recent incident & have begun searching MS KBase: e.g.> 0028:00000017; 0246:014747FB; 2C0F:014F6B97 ... YADDA YADDA.

by kathyjp

Would help to know what the error messages on the crashes are, and what,exactly, interrupts the downloads/installs/apps. Are these error messages interrupting also? If so, what do they say?

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