re: Black Screen of Death - My PC hates saving to Floppy
Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 11:07 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Mike C
(32 messages posted)
It's probably just time to replace the floppy drive. You should be about to get
on off the web for like $8 + s&h. My machine was crashing everytime I tried to write
to my floppy. It stopped when I put a new one in. It's not hard to do. There are
no drives you need to install for a floppy, and the connetors are idoit proofed.
On Tuesday, May 27, 2003 at 8:59 am, Rosso wrote:
>A rather curious problem has been bugging me of late: whenever I try saving anything
>to a floppy disk, the monitor goes all black while the saving process continues,
>seemingly uninterrupted and unaffected by the black screen. The only way to bring
>the computer back is to press the Restart button (Ctrl-Alt-Del won't work).
>
>This doesn't happen, however, when saving to a Zip disk or burning a CD. The first
>time I got a black screen was when I attempted to format my second HD from withing
>Windows (I managed to complete the task successfully later, without any complications).
>
>My OS is Win 98 SE.
>
>A friend suggested the problem might be that I have too many fonts installed on
the
>PC (the limit being 500). Could that be causing it? The possibility of a virus has
>been definitely ruled out.
>
>Any ideas? I'd appreciate any help.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>R.
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