major, major crash imminent

I will be gone all weekend so Darrell can make that boot floppy and run it, will post results Monday unless he posts them when he runs it.

Thanks and have a good weekend everyone......Beth

Good day Dan, started the mem test yesterday, and kinda figure that it just keeps going, as it ran 12 hrs. for 13 tests, which were all succesfull, let me know if I did right, the memory was originally 64x64 for 128 and the shop put in a 128 for 256, and after researchig dell and doing the math, it said that this could go to 720, to which Jephoree does not recommend, but I believe Beth said something about 320, so I replaced one of the 64's with a 128 for the 320, and the mem test says that the Ecc is dis-abled, and I used Pc 100 to match, and see that the shop used Pc 133 (don't think it matters too much) from what I have read...
Problem with the everest report, it is over the upload limit, so please advise, as to what can be shaved off....
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Also, cleaned out the dust creatures, that were living inside LoL (temps. around 112 for Cpu & mother board-both)
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didn't last-cpu went back up over 120, mother board dropped a little.
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You "did right" with the memory testing. Thirteen hours with no problems, to me is good.

Regarding temperature; Are all your fans running well? (Power supply, CPU, case if any.) Even though a fan is running, sometimes they get "dry" and run slow, thereby not cooling to their full potential. There should be a good air flow. (I've solved quite a few fan/heat problems by pulling the center "seal" sticker off of the motor body, adding a drop or two of electric motor oil, and resealing with plastic electrical tape.) If you're adventurous, and go this route, this generally works with pretty well any of the fans, especially any with sleeve bearings. For the power supply (fans), they can generally be worked on while they're still attached to the system. (No power cord attached of course.) Once the four PS mounting screws are removed, you can usually twist the PS up and around to get at the PS enclosure case screws. Some PS fans plug in, some are soldered in. You shouldn't have problems though. Just keep your fingers off of any other components. Dismount the fan, do the lube, and replace. If you do have to unplug anything, make note of it's location/placement/orientation. Same with the fans. Keep air flow direction in mind when you dismount any.

As far as startup programs go, I'd stop anything AOHell from loading at startup. It's not needed.

The only things I have loading are Anti-Virus, Firewall, ScanRegistry, TaskMonitor, one MS Security Update, and some video/display adapter driver files.

Check in Start, Programs, Startup. In msconfig - Startup tab (Start, Run, msconfig), and the load= run= lines in the c:\windows\win.ini file.

Now that we're fairly sure there are no component problems, (if you haven't already) post a HiJack this log in the Security forum, minding their recommendations before posting the log.

I'll PM you (Private Message) regarding the Everest Report.

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Was looking at oiling them when I had them out yesterday, but figured that I better wait for some confirmation on that, and I love to take things apart to keep them clean, as they will last alot longer, and work alot better, was a little curious as to why the fan is blowing out, seems to me it would be better blowing in, but as I said no expert here, although I did take a course in electronics engineering many moons ago, I believe we were the first class not to spend 6 months on Crt's LoL......
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Was reading back over the post, and yes we do have the 98Se disc, and just out of curiousity, because I have the dell (Xp), what is the difference, and should I start looking for a real windows Cd LoL
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PS fans generally exhaust the air (blow out). Most (older) have one fan, some (newer) have two. One blows out the back of the tower, and the other blows down into the enclosure (the two-fan models I've seen/installed anyway).

CPU heatsink fans generally blow the air onto the heatsink, but there are exceptions. This is why I said note the orientation of the fan units. If in doubt, following the above is safe.

Case (extra enclosure) fans can blow either way, out or in. The rule to follow is not to cross air streams. One fan should not interfere with anothers operation.

98CD's, General overview; An install CD is just that. All it does is provide the instructions/files for loading/installing an O/S. You are in control. A Recovery CD from the manufacturer generally formats the drive and puts an original O/S and utilities back on, which is somewhat tailored to the manufacturers specs/liking. Thus you loose anything on the hard disk partition from the format. You have very little control as to what actions are performed.

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Thank You for your reply, and I am thinking that a system backup may be in order, just need to research some more on the norton ghost that came with the package that I purchased, but my biggest curiosity is, can you backup on multiple Cd's--not sure how that would work, but have seen multiple disc's for loading some of the windows programs, they were just numbered.. Curious LoL
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Back to the 98Se, still freezing up all the time, will have Beth post latest info. although she says nothing has changed, so we can only hope that you were able to spot something in the hijack log.
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