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You might check for the win32/hep virus. Make sure you virus .dat file
is newer
then july 98 or it wont find this win .exe attaching virus. It can cause
some of the
symtoms that you mention.

Scott Moore wrote:

>  I'm hoping maybe someone out there can guide me in the right
> direction to solve this- I'm really at my wit's end.For about the last
> 3 months, I've had a strange, reoccuring problem with my PC- When I
> booted it up the first time, no problem, ran great. Over time I
> noticed an inordinate amount of page faults, GPFs, and just plain old
> lockups. These occurred only in Win95, never when running an old DOS
> app, and progressively got more common, until it happened virtually
> everytime I turned the PC on.I finally got fed up, and reinstalled
> Win95 OSR2 over the top of my old install- bang, no problems. Smooth
> as a baby's butt. For about 2 1/2 weeks- the problems started creeping
> back, until I repeated the 'fix' I mentioned above. I went thru this 3
> more times, until 3 weeks ago or so, when I formatted my drives,
> reinstalled everything from scratch, and prayed. No problems until two
> days ago- and it's starting again. I've tried every driver under the
> sun, checked my DIMMs, made sure the CPU was cool and well seated in
> the socket, and disabled things I thought may cause problems- no
> luck. Anyone have any idea what's going on? System specs are below.
> Thanks tons for any and all help. VIA MVP3 100 mhz Super 7 MBAMD K6-2
> 300 CPU64 MB 66 mhz SDRAM(the clock speed is set asychronous- that
> isn't the problem)Diamond Stealth II(using the Rendition reference
> drivers- seem to work the best)2 1.6 GB WD Caviar hard disksSony
> CDU-511 16x CD-ROMMotorola ModemSurfr 56K internal w/v.90
> upgradeDirectX 6.0 (all drivers certified)...and an old 8-bit SB Pro
> soundcard. I've gone through every troubleshooting step I can think
> of. HELP!!
> --
> Scott Moore
> Sports Gaming Network
> http://www.sports-gaming.com
> Vintage Internet Racing Club
> http://members.tripod.com/Hoosier_6/
> ICQ 13433409
> AOL IM HalfFast6

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You might check for the win32/hep virus. Make sure you virus .dat file
is newer
<br>then july 98 or it wont find this win .exe attaching virus. It can
cause some of the
<br>symtoms that you mention.
<p>Scott Moore wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>&nbsp;<font color="#000000"><font size=-1>I'm hoping
maybe someone out there can guide me in the right direction to solve this-
I'm really at my wit's end.</font></font><font size=-1>For about the last
3 months, I've had a strange, reoccuring problem with my PC- When I booted
it up the first time, no problem, ran great. Over time I noticed an inordinate
amount of page faults, GPFs, and just plain old lockups. These occurred
only in Win95, never when running an old DOS app, and progressively got
more common, until it happened virtually everytime I turned the PC on.</font><font size=-1>I
finally got fed up, and reinstalled Win95 OSR2 over the top of my old install-
bang, no problems. Smooth as a baby's butt. For about 2 1/2 weeks- the
problems started creeping back, until I repeated the 'fix' I mentioned
above. I went thru this 3 more times, until 3 weeks ago or so, when I formatted
my drives, reinstalled everything from scratch, and prayed. No problems
until two days ago- and it's starting again. I've tried every driver under
the sun, checked my DIMMs, made sure the CPU was cool and well seated in
the socket, and disabled things I thought may cause problems- no luck.</font>&nbsp;<font size=-1>Anyone
have any idea what's going on? System specs are below. Thanks tons for
any and all help.</font>&nbsp;<font size=-1>VIA MVP3 100 mhz Super 7 MB</font><font size=-1>AMD
K6-2 300 CPU</font><font size=-1>64 MB 66 mhz SDRAM(the clock speed is
set asychronous- that isn't the problem)</font><font size=-1>Diamond Stealth
II(using the Rendition reference drivers- seem to work the best)</font><font size=-1>2
1.6 GB WD Caviar hard disks</font><font size=-1>Sony CDU-511 16x CD-ROM</font><font size=-1>Motorola
ModemSurfr 56K internal w/v.90 upgrade</font><font size=-1>DirectX 6.0
(all drivers certified)</font><font size=-1>...and an old 8-bit SB Pro
soundcard.</font>&nbsp;<font size=-1>I've gone through every troubleshooting
step I can think of. HELP!!</font>&nbsp;
<br><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>--</font></font>
<br><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Scott Moore</font></font>
<br><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Sports Gaming Network</font></font>
<br><font color="#000000"><font size=-1><a href="http://www.sports-gaming.com">http://www.sports-gaming.com</a></font></font>
<br><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>Vintage Internet Racing Club</font></font>
<br><font color="#000000"><font size=-1><a href="http://members.tripod.com/Hoosier_6/">http://members.tripod.com/Hoosier_6/</a></font></font>
<br><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>ICQ 13433409</font></font>
<br><font color="#000000"><font size=-1>AOL IM HalfFast6</font></font></blockquote>

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