lonesome_wolf2000
Thread Starter
- Joined
- Dec 23, 2000
- Messages
- 410
Im working on an old 386 computer. I'm not real sure about the components in the computer, but i do know that it has 8 meg of ram and a 400+ mb hard drive. The drive is also connected to a controller card that is plugged into an expansion slot on the motherboard. Now here's the problem...
The computer orginally had dos and windows 3.1 installed on it. I then upgraded it to windows 95 and only installed minimal components. Now the computer gets a blue screen every now and then. The message says something about another device trying to access the hard disk drive in an illegal manner. (or something along those lines) My guess is it's because of the controller card in the machine and windows 95 is not liking it. I was wondering if i formatted the drive, and reinstalled just a fresh windows 95, would i need to worry about device drivers for that controller card, if so, would there be any? Also the computer has several other cards in it. (sound card, video card, etc). I'll probably need drivers for them too. Is it plausible to format and reinstall 95? Ideas?
The computer orginally had dos and windows 3.1 installed on it. I then upgraded it to windows 95 and only installed minimal components. Now the computer gets a blue screen every now and then. The message says something about another device trying to access the hard disk drive in an illegal manner. (or something along those lines) My guess is it's because of the controller card in the machine and windows 95 is not liking it. I was wondering if i formatted the drive, and reinstalled just a fresh windows 95, would i need to worry about device drivers for that controller card, if so, would there be any? Also the computer has several other cards in it. (sound card, video card, etc). I'll probably need drivers for them too. Is it plausible to format and reinstall 95? Ideas?