Need Help !!
My config is -:
operating system Win 98 ( 4.10.1998)
AMD K62 450
M/b asus P5Ab
384 mb ram ( 256 mb/ 128 mb chips )
asus 50x cd rom drive
8.4 gb hdd (equal partition c drive / d drive)
Voodoo 3 3000 agp
Now about the problem : At boot up the memory has started to show 320 or 256 instead of 384 , after the boot screen it freezes and hangs, on pressing reset it sometimes shows the ram correctly and prompts for safe mode, after the computer boots up on safe mode it loads windows correctly. In safe mode when I go into system properties instead of showing the normal " your system is configured for optimal performance " it shows a big white box and it says that " ms dos compatibility paging system
and each drive ie A,C , D has a line saying that it is using ms dos compatibility. When I reboot it starts up allright
I ran msconfig and the config .sys, autoexec .bat and winstart .bat is all grayed out.
The surprising part is that everytime I boot its always SOMETHING DIFFERENT, either the system hangs on some screen before it reaches the desktop or the ram shows different numbers the last time it booted correctly, but ram showed 320 mb and the performance shows that the system is configured for optimal performance at couple of times it even showed the error hard disk diagnosis fail and when I rebooted it wouldn't show the error again.Things just come and go . This has been happening since the past 2 days
Need help soon
My config is -:
operating system Win 98 ( 4.10.1998)
AMD K62 450
M/b asus P5Ab
384 mb ram ( 256 mb/ 128 mb chips )
asus 50x cd rom drive
8.4 gb hdd (equal partition c drive / d drive)
Voodoo 3 3000 agp
Now about the problem : At boot up the memory has started to show 320 or 256 instead of 384 , after the boot screen it freezes and hangs, on pressing reset it sometimes shows the ram correctly and prompts for safe mode, after the computer boots up on safe mode it loads windows correctly. In safe mode when I go into system properties instead of showing the normal " your system is configured for optimal performance " it shows a big white box and it says that " ms dos compatibility paging system
and each drive ie A,C , D has a line saying that it is using ms dos compatibility. When I reboot it starts up allright
I ran msconfig and the config .sys, autoexec .bat and winstart .bat is all grayed out.
The surprising part is that everytime I boot its always SOMETHING DIFFERENT, either the system hangs on some screen before it reaches the desktop or the ram shows different numbers the last time it booted correctly, but ram showed 320 mb and the performance shows that the system is configured for optimal performance at couple of times it even showed the error hard disk diagnosis fail and when I rebooted it wouldn't show the error again.Things just come and go . This has been happening since the past 2 days
Need help soon