[WEB4LIB] Two pcs, same symptoms, won't boot...

[Nelson, Sharon]

Have you tried a scandisk and a disk defrag (and doing the defrag whether
Windows says it "needs" it or not)? We had an older PC that was doing the
same thing (had to reboot it several times before it would come up, then it
would only come up in Safe mode) and that fixed it.  

Sharon

Sharon L. Nelson
Reference/Technology Librarian
Lownik Library, Benedictine University
Lisle, IL 60532
snelson at ben.edu   

-----Original Message-----
From: Catherine Buck Morgan [mailto:catherine at leo.scsl.state.sc.us]
Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 4:30 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Two pcs, same symptoms, won't boot...


Last month, one of our pcs quit booting up in the morning. It would
stall at the second Windows screen. There were no errors to indicate any
problems. After rebooting five or six times, the machine would finally
come up. And it would run like a charm. So far, no fix. (Pentium Win95)

Lo and behold, last week we had another machine behave in the same
manner. This one will eventually boot up in safe mode, and then it will
reboot and come up normally. Sometimes, it has to be booted several
times before we can get it to run in safe mode. I even changed out the
network card on this one. (Pentium Win95)

The first machine I was able to take out of production. I've stripped
everything down to the operating system, and then upgraded it to Win98.
It still will not boot cold.

Both machines have Mcafee virus software on them, with up-to-date dat
files.

Any ideas? TIA, and HH!
-- 
Catherine Buck Morgan
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South Carolina State Library
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