Subj : Quality...
To   : Hans Andersson
From : August Abolins
Date : Sun Aug 28 2005 03:33 pm

"Hans Andersson -> Dale Spear" <2:201/209> wrote...

 HA>   I have an old PC that ticks along at 166Mhz. Doubled the memory to
128Mb,
 HA>   i have strong suspicion that factor cuased much of the instability. The
 HA>    specification says that is ok with 128Mb. Reduced the memory back to
64Mb
 HA>    and it seems that system is more stable.

Ok... those specs answer my question in a previous post.  As someone else
pointed out.. are you sure you installed a good MATCH when you doubled the
memory?  What is the make and model of your motherboard?  If you go to
places like www.crucial.com they can help list COMPATIBLE memory modules
that are suitable for your motherboard.


 HA>   No crash yet..., but the primary
 HA>    harddisk, (Western Digital) failed, W98 did not boot up. Lots of read
error
 HA>    with scandisk, the surface of track 1065 or so was totaly destroyed.
But,
 HA>    the other partions was ok, so data could be saved from about the year
 HA>   2000. So don't forget to backup your data!

Another thing that can cause intermittent performance problems is a
harddrive having problem of it's own.  Your scandisk result seems to point
to that.  It might be wise to consider copying your important data OFFLINE
(backup) and install a new harddrive too.

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