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Ricky Romaya
I bought a 600VA UPS and an active speakers this afternoon, go right
home, and installed it, plus a friend came by and give some data on his
flash disk. So I figure to use Win2k to copy the data, and I did, which
went by with no hassle. The flash disk was removed immedietly (and not
forgetting to 'soft unplug' it from Win2k) w/o turning off the computer.
Now I boot to Win98SE. To my amazement, it hangs right after boot. It's
OK the last time I use it (before buying those UPS etc). Apparently, it
whines about the selected display resolution doesn't match the adapter's
capabilities. OK so I boot it to safe mode and set it to the minimum
available, 640x480x16color, then boot to normal mode. This time it went
through, but if I set it to the resolution I've used before
(800x600x16bit), it hangs again.
At my friend's advice, I reset the resolution to 640x480x16color, boot
it, then set it to 800x600xwhatever, then boot. This time everything back
to normal, or so it seemed. As soon as I insert a DVD to the DVD-ROM, the
monitor suddenly went standby, and everything crashed. What's more, when
I try to boot to win2k now it only gives me garbage display and crashed.
I went ballistic, and replace the new UPS with the old one, and voila,
everything back to normal. I tested it for some time, both win2k and
win98se. Bussiness as usual.
After sometime, I put in a CD in the DVD-ROM on win98se, and the cycle
begins again. OK, this time I pull the last known good partition image of
win98se (it's bare win98se with only all drivers installed and have been
verified as working, and nothing else). It worked, and everything again
seemed normal, but only after sometime everything turn ugly again, those
sudden monitor blanks, flickers, hangs, and crashes, bwaaaah. I can't
even re-install Acrobat Reader 5.
Plz help. What seemed to be the problem? All I can think of is it's
graphic adapter related. Is it the UPS? or the 'hot' removal of the
flashdisk? or something else altogether?
FYI my setup is:
P4 2.4 GHz FSB 533
Gigabyte GA-8IPE800G mobo
256MB DDR PC2700 VisiPro RAM
PixelView GeForce MX4000 64MB Graphic Adapter
Seagate 40GB HDD
ASUS DVD-ROM
SONY CDRW
Prolink 600VA UPS (new one)
Pascal 500VA UPS (old one)
The last app ran on win98se (when it's still on good shape) is ePSXe PSX
emulator. BTW, on the last run win98se hangs at shutdown, but I reset it,
boot to win98se, and shutdown normally.
TIA
home, and installed it, plus a friend came by and give some data on his
flash disk. So I figure to use Win2k to copy the data, and I did, which
went by with no hassle. The flash disk was removed immedietly (and not
forgetting to 'soft unplug' it from Win2k) w/o turning off the computer.
Now I boot to Win98SE. To my amazement, it hangs right after boot. It's
OK the last time I use it (before buying those UPS etc). Apparently, it
whines about the selected display resolution doesn't match the adapter's
capabilities. OK so I boot it to safe mode and set it to the minimum
available, 640x480x16color, then boot to normal mode. This time it went
through, but if I set it to the resolution I've used before
(800x600x16bit), it hangs again.
At my friend's advice, I reset the resolution to 640x480x16color, boot
it, then set it to 800x600xwhatever, then boot. This time everything back
to normal, or so it seemed. As soon as I insert a DVD to the DVD-ROM, the
monitor suddenly went standby, and everything crashed. What's more, when
I try to boot to win2k now it only gives me garbage display and crashed.
I went ballistic, and replace the new UPS with the old one, and voila,
everything back to normal. I tested it for some time, both win2k and
win98se. Bussiness as usual.
After sometime, I put in a CD in the DVD-ROM on win98se, and the cycle
begins again. OK, this time I pull the last known good partition image of
win98se (it's bare win98se with only all drivers installed and have been
verified as working, and nothing else). It worked, and everything again
seemed normal, but only after sometime everything turn ugly again, those
sudden monitor blanks, flickers, hangs, and crashes, bwaaaah. I can't
even re-install Acrobat Reader 5.
Plz help. What seemed to be the problem? All I can think of is it's
graphic adapter related. Is it the UPS? or the 'hot' removal of the
flashdisk? or something else altogether?
FYI my setup is:
P4 2.4 GHz FSB 533
Gigabyte GA-8IPE800G mobo
256MB DDR PC2700 VisiPro RAM
PixelView GeForce MX4000 64MB Graphic Adapter
Seagate 40GB HDD
ASUS DVD-ROM
SONY CDRW
Prolink 600VA UPS (new one)
Pascal 500VA UPS (old one)
The last app ran on win98se (when it's still on good shape) is ePSXe PSX
emulator. BTW, on the last run win98se hangs at shutdown, but I reset it,
boot to win98se, and shutdown normally.
TIA