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05-Jul-2003, 11:08 PM
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 Win98se Computer bootup time is Tickin me off! Hi. Ive been reading the forum here for about a week now. Im impressed! So, I joined in hopes that someone here can help???? Ive posted on several other forums, but so far. No one has taken the challenge. Im running win98se 512 ram 1000 MHZ I have several problems, but I know that is all boils down the one small thing. I JUST DONT KNOW IT! And its driving me bonkers! When I boot up, all goes well, until the Windows welcome screen. From there, its an eternity. It takes as long as my old PB used to. Which is now, DEAD. (RIP) I used the skip driver agent, and its showing that there is a problem at: "DSC\DISK\0000USB&VID_0D7D&PID_0100&072313080181 The reference for theis problem is: DSC\DISK\0000USB&VID_0D7D&PID_0100&072313080181 Try upgrading the device drivers for this hardware or changing the resources the device is using." Also, about 1.5 yrs ago, I installed a logitech webcam. Shortly after rebooting, It started this problem: I would get tiny veritcal lines (blue) along the top of the screen. When booting. It would freeze at my desktop. If I press ctrl,alt,del it shows that windows hasnt loaded. It wont restart with ctrl alt del, so i have to turn it off manually. Then sometimes, it would beep 5 or 6 times, (i cant remember the number of beeps offhand) but when it did it again, I did count them, and found out that it signaled a video problem. I posted to forums, and no answers. Sometimes, it would set off the beeps, like, whenever I moved my computer. If I pulled it away from the wall (to clean) and then push it back, it would beep. Pull it away, it wouldnt. Put it back against the wall, it would. If I move the wire, it would stop it. I took out the video card, and reseated it. Still does it, but not as often, of course, Ive given up on cleaning behind the desk now too. If I dont use the pc for a while, it would make a noise (similar to grinding sound - but not). Sometimes one to three tries to get it started. Once in a great while, 10 times or more. On top of all of this, I had a mishap last summer. I spilled coffee on my cordless keyboard. Nothing happened, at least not right away! I left the room for a few secs to get a towel, and when I came back, the screen was going haywire! I saw the CMOS SCREEN, numbers, letters and what have you. I got scared and couldnt seem to hit the esc key (actually i didnt know what to do), by this time, it dawned on my to pull the power cord. After I gained my composure, I changed the keyboard back to the old one, and crossed my fingers as I turned it back on. All was well, I thought. Everynow and then, I think about that day, and wonder, could I have changed an order of something around? It must have happened, because in my readings of the forums, one lady had answered me, and told me to change the boot order of C. I did, and that shaved about 30secs off the startup! I know, I shouldve written a book, eh? I reformatted, january 31, 03 hoping that would have fixed something. It didnt. I added another 256ram about 2 weeks ago. Still runs slow. I dont have anything but, explorer, systray, my firewall (sygate), and antivirus running. right now. I had my printer disabled from startup but when I did that, it refused to work, so, now I ctrl alt to shut it down. The computer was built for me by a friend, but, he is no longer alive. So, asking him to fix it is out of the question. Its been a pain since day 1. I got a program called FreshUI, and installed it. Benchmarks also. There are more questions Id like to ask, but if this hasnt scared anyone away, Ill ask those questions later. Hope Someone can help me. I dont know DOS, or win ini or bats. So please, be gentle? Kix So what i wanted to know is can someone help me find out what could be the problem?  |
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