re: Screen goes blank after about 5 minutes
Saturday, May 4, 2002 at 10:04 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mike
(116 messages posted)
Did your friend reformat the drive, during this restore process? He should. It
is
the only way to be sure a system glitch is gone. I understand, if this isn't
possible, because you WILL lose any data you can't back up. But, those errors
are telling me you have a boot sector problem. To be sure it isn't just invalid
information on the drive, I would wipe out fdisk and redo the complete process of
formatting, then do the restore again. This would then tell me if the drive is the
cause of the errors you are getting. The sound of a drive should never be very
loud, or have any 'clunking' sounds. And, check to see if there is a lot of dust
on
any of the chips, or around your processor. And check around the fan and intake
too. Make sure all fans are working and there is nothing obstructing the flow of
air through the compuer and over the inside parts of the computer. If a processor
gets too hot, it will shut down. Other chips can get hot, too, and if dust is allowed
to collect long enough, it can do some strange things. As always, don't take my
word for this. You
should always get a second opinion on what to do.
On Saturday, May 4, 2002 at 5:31 am, Stacy Rgoers wrote:
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>I was using the computer while chatting on line and all of a sudden without notice
>the whole system cut off. When I tried to turn it back on it would get half way
>thru the boot process and shut back off. A friend helped me do the restore and
for
>a few days it worked fine. Then the noises started. The Errors consist of: "Unable
>to write to Drive C:" "Invalid boot disk,Insert Boot Disk into Drive A:", but you
>can shut off the computer and wait 5 minutes turn it on again and it will fully
load.
> While trying to run several programs including Scandisk or Nortons Disk Doctor.
> after about 5 minutes the screen goes blank and computer will stop responding.
>Ctrl+Alt+ Del will not even shut it off.
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