Bev,
What version of Windows?
Rob - Va
On 10/24/06, SISU! <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
> When you reinstall Windows, does it wipe everything out like a reformat,
> or does it just write over the old copy or what? Do you just stick the
> Windows Cd in and install it as it it were not already there?
>
> For the past two weeks, I have been having crashes and shutdowns,
> exception error, fatal exception errors, etc. I can barely get online
> without Netscape crashing or Windows crashing. I've run Scandisk again
> and again, and usually there are no errors, but once it did find errors
> and it fixed them. It still did not solve the problem.
>
> This whole thing seemed to start when I was negligent about vacuuming
> behind the computer. I let a lot of dust build up. I have since
> cleaned and blown all that out, but I am now wondering if I might have
> fried the motherboard or something. The cooling fans are working
> properly, everything is clean, the disk is only 20% full, and I haven't
> installed any new software or loaded any kind of new game. No viruses
> found, no spyware or other problems found. I do regular
> maintenance-defrag, scandisk, etc. The damn thing just keeps crashing on
> me. I've backed everything up, just to be safe, and am now thinking of
> reinstalling Windows (98SE), but I've never done that before and am
> worried about creating more problems.
>
> Bev, stumbling around in the dark
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