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- From: drkerns@sony7.sdrc.com (sean kerns)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: 32-bit acces problems
- Message-ID: <236@heimdall.sdrc.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 19:22:54 GMT
- Sender: news@heimdall.sdrc.com
- Organization: SDRC
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- Hopefully this is the right place to post this. I have a 386-33 Laser (IBM clone)
- tower PC with 6Mb of RAM and a 130 Mb IDE hard drive. I read a Windows tip in
- PC World which recommended turning the 32-bit access switch on in Windows to make
- it run faster, so I tried it, and sure enough, it seemed to work, so I left it on.
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- Well, about 2 months after this, I left my PC in a Windows session while I went
- to look something up, and came back in about 10 minutes or so to find the
- generic Win 3.1 error screen up, with a message saying my hard drive had timed
- out, and that it might not be compatible with 32-bit access. The only way out of
- this was to reset the computer, which was messy, since the swap file didn't get
- cleaned up.
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- Interestingly enough, right about the same time, I had a hard disk problem, and
- CHKDSK looked and foundand marked 32,768 bytes in bad sectors. I truned off the
- 32-bit switch, and didn't have the problem again. I recently turned it back on,
- and everything was okay for a month or so until I had the same time out error in
- Windows. Are the time out problem and the bad sectors related? Did the 32-bit
- switch cause this? BTW, I also have the After Dark screen saver program, which
- loads automatically with Windows. Might his be the source of my trouble?
-
- I appreciate any help you can offer. Post or E-mail me as sean.kerns@sdrc.com.
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- Thanks in advance.
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