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- From: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Problem - hard drive hangs - HELP!
- Message-ID: <C1HFB3.1wAE@austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:18:39 GMT
- Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id)
- Reply-To: ken@austin.ibm.com (Ken Goach)
- Organization: IBM Austin, TX
- Lines: 52
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- Hi all,
-
- I was hoping some Windows guru could helps me.
-
- I am having a lot of problems with my hard drive hanging
- in Windows 3.1. I am not sure if the problem is getting
- more frequent or not, but it's a big problem. The last
- few times I've used Windows, the hard drive would hang
- when I opened Windows. Here's the scoop:
-
- 1. typed "WIN /3" or "WIN"
-
- 2. Windows begins opening
-
- 3. Get wallpaper up on screen
-
- 4. Opening .WAV plays.
-
- 5. Drive hangs. Mouse still moves, but is hourglass. The
- LED that shows the drive is reading stays on constantly.
- System doesn't recover. Cold boot necessary.
-
- Last night I had to open Windows *5* times to get it to open
- successfully. Even then, an hour into working on a MIDI
- file, it froze again. Same thing - as 5 above.
-
- I thought perhaps SMARTDRV was the culprit, and after the
- 4th failure, I REM'd it from the autoexec.bat. Windows
- opened, but it hung up an hour later.
-
- I'm running HIMEM, EMM386, and SMARTDRV. No parameters
- on the latter two.
-
- I have tried three different virus programs - one is brand
- new - and none show a virus. I don't think that's the cause.
-
- Perhaps I need to reinstall Windows. Maybe my hard drive is
- going bad. Maybe I should reinstall the whole machine. I
- DON'T KNOW!
-
- Any clues, tips, pointers, incantations, rituals, etc. would
- be appreciated.
-
-
- Respond to ken@austin.ibm.com
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