[pchelpers] Re: Win 98 & Internet Explorer


You should find that PC133 ram will adapt to the bus speed in most
cases. This is the case with 100M speed. Try it and see.

For your hard drive, try it as the only device on the secondary IDE and
if the new 80 wire cable is connected, go back to a 40 wire std
connection. The old drive just may be unable to take it. Then give the
drive a thorough maintainance sweep to confirm normal operation. If it
does not perform after that, the interface may have traces of static
damage.

Scott & Arina Gibson wrote:

> I'm also looking for a bit of advice.  I'm running in Intel board with
> Celeron 688, and only a pitiful 64 Ram.  I'm needing to upgrade my
> RAM. On
> the motherboard instructions is says that if the system bus is 100Mhz
> or
> below (I've 66 Mhz) then it will take PC-100 SDRAM, now I can only
> find in
> the shops PC-133 SDRAM- the question is - will this work?
> 
> Another thing. I recently installed a CD-RW.  Since then I've had
> problems
> with my computer.  I have 2 HDD and now 2 CD's.  Before my main HDD
> was on
> the primary channel, and the other one was on the 2nd with the CD as
> slave.
> Now with all the cables used, my 2nd hard drive wouldn't work.
> Everything
> would look fine but then weird characters would appear on it.  Eg, the
> label
> was garbled letters, and then Windows would hang up when I tried to
> access
> it.  Under Dos scandisk didn't show anything up.  Then bad sectors
> started
> appearing on my main disk (it's partitioned by the way into 3 hard
> drives).
> When I would boot up, the computer would hang up while showing the Win
> 98
> screen.  I would have to switch off, do a scandisk and the whole C
> disk was
> in a mess.  This happened lots of time and I has to install windows
> almost
> every week.  Now I've taken out the 2nd HDD and got the 2 CD's on the
> secondary channel.  I may put the CD reader back as a slave onto the
> primary
> HDD. But it seems like the HDD doesn't like anything as slave.  All
> the
> jumpers are correct, I've new cables in it.  I used Scanrite and that
> was
> able to erase the bad sectors. Scanrite also showed up an extra bad
> sector
> that windows didn't show - could that be a reason for the computer not
> booting up? Now everything seems to be working fine (without the 2nd
> HDD
> though).  Does anyone have any ideas as to why this would happen?  I
> would
> like in time to use both HDD's.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help with this question.
> 
> Yours,
> Scott

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