Got an emergency Here

[Machine]

A customers business Machine...

Locks the computer up completely when you try to run scandisk, defrag, or NDD when in windows... Runs fine In Safemode..

Anyone else ever experience this?
Please help.
Windows 98
P3 733
20 gig hdd

ahahhhhhhh

[ledrichard]

try to runnning defrag or scandisk in protected mode when there is nothing running at all. use Ctrl-alt-del to close everything down except explorer. Chances are you may have a corrupt tsr or other program that is using to much of your system's resources. If it works fine then you will need to find out which program is causing it. I had a prob. like this when a cust. installed an older version of mcafee over a newer version. He then tried to uninstall the older version but in the process everything went to sh#T!

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hey its me again!

[ReBoot]

First, rename the autoexec.bat and config.sys files, so they don't load anything at startup.
Boot to safe mode, completely remove sNort crap.
Restart.

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[Machine]

He's got 256 megs of ram and only 75% resources free..
He has a ****load of stuff running, and this happened when norton antivirus decided to auto update the virus definitions.

It still does it when i close all the programs, but works fine in safe mode.

-Machine

[Machine]

Yeah i tried that
Used MSCONFIG and turned off all the loading ****.

I did remove norton in hopes that that would fix it but it didnt :/

[klenard]

Had some what the same problem before. I had a bad install of win98 and had to re-install.

[Tech666]

Sound like a driver issue with the IDE ports to me.

[Machine]

Wont let me reinstall windows or i would have.

Just locks up the computer after it loads the setup wizard.

-Machine
I looked in Device Manager, No conflicts at all.

[ledrichard]

ah hah!! is the hdd setup right in the bios?

I am assuming this machine does not have an overlay installed right?

[klenard]

Yeah, try to re-install the drivers for the mobo.

[Machine]

They are SCSI Drives, no overlay software.
I'll Try it... Not much else to try I should be going on the call later....

Keep the ideas coming :P

[cyberhh]

Had the same problem (minus the NDD) turned out to be bad RAM. Try pulling RAM and see if that works. I also had to reinstll the OS afterward, something was corrupted.

Good Luck and keep us informed.

[Tular]

Originally posted by cyberhh:
Had the same problem (minus the NDD) turned out to be bad RAM. Try pulling RAM and see if that works. I also had to reinstll the OS afterward, something was corrupted.

Good Luck and keep us informed.

Have you tried cleaning the registry? Norton apps love to leave lingering keys...

best of luck
tular

[DarKMooN]

Yep, norton LOVES taking over the system! I would suggest (if possible) to just format and re-install everything. I'm almost possitive it's a software issue.

BTW, sounds like your boss has a nice computer... everyone else have P100's? heh =]

[corelogik]

Originally posted by Machine:
A customers business Machine...

Locks the computer up completely when you try to run scandisk, defrag, or NDD when in windows... Runs fine In Safemode..

Anyone else ever experience this?
Please help.
Windows 98
P3 733
20 gig hdd

ahahhhhhhh

not sure if it will work but you could always try to back up his data to a cd and try the fix all,....

"C:\FDISK"


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