Weirdness on HP!!! Help!!!!!!

[jbar1]

O.K. guys. Help me with this one. Hp Pavalion 733, 256Mb ram 35 Gig HD Cd and cdrw win98SE from HP. Customer was complaining about being unstable and not always seeing HP CDwriter as a writer. Removed and reloaded Adaptec 4.1 software now writes but not reliable. Restored sys from HP restore disk which included fresh format. Still unstable folowing error screens pop up at any given time sometimes by the dozens;Msinn, Iexplorer, Explorer, Rnaapp and backweb. Warm and cold boots to "Active Desktop Recovery Screen" System is using HP MemorySystem is 2 months out of warranty. I am thinking towards a bad chipset. Any Ideas

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If life is a bitch then what is death? I believe I will take the bitch!

[StevePorter]

Go into Device Manager and set each IDE device to use DMA if possible. I know my HP 9100i CD Writer was really picky about that...

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You want the right answer?!? You must be asleep, because you're dreaming...

[DonJ]

Hi,

I wasn't able to find your exact model number...Pavilion 733 doesn't seem to exist.

Anyway, check HP's link below...enter the correct model number and follow the bouncing ball. It's possible that HP has some updated drivers, BIOS, etc. for that machine.

http://www.hp.com/cposupport/software.html

Also, if we're talking SCSI here, double-check the terminations, addresses, etc. Usually, address 7 is reserved for the SCSI interface card itself.

Also, I know that some media is not very compatible with HP's CD burners...might want to verify with somebody who knows more about which brands to use and which to avoid.

Just a couple of ideas...

Good Luck!
DonJ


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Hey, it's all FM to me!

[jbar1]

Thanks for the feed back.

For some reason we dont have this customers HP in our data base so I left a message to get more information.

Yes I can do multi-tasking. Can you do multi-paying?

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If life is a bitch then what is death? I believe I will take the bitch!