stumped

[augustorm]

Hey peeps,
I'm having some probs with one of my machines.
One day I pulled a memory board out to compare to one that a friend had given me. I saw that they were not the same so I put mine back in and gave the other one back to my friend telling him that I could not use it with my MB.
I go to boot my machine and everything looked normal...everything until windows tried to load....just when I think I am going to get the Wallpaper and my network logon, the machine just shuts down.
No error msg, nothing, it is as if I myself had chose the shutdown option.
So, I've been troubleshooting for about two weeks now and finally I see a error msg during the autoexec.bat screen that says: "Memory manager not found". and it then it refers to EMM386.
The thing runs in safe mode all day long....but when i choose normal boot, it shuts itself down.
I have reinstalled windows. I have not reformatted yet.
Maybe its just time for a better machine.
I have wanted to see for myself if amd processors are better for game play.
This is my game machine that is having the probs.
So, think it could be perhaps a virus doing this or perhaps my powersupply. I just dont get it.

[Pants]

I'm probably going to upgrade to an AMD 64 3000 or so here in a month or two...

[chagrin]

Have you been to techsupportforum.com?

Pretty helpful site

[Mr. Laz]

memory problem... your machine may have been running on your friends memory only.

1. reseat the memory
2. move the memory into another slot
3a. add more memory
3b. replace the memory


oh btw ... i hoped you turned the machine off complete(unplugged) before replacing memory etc.... if not, that could kill it.

[Hammock Parties]

Originally Posted by Laz

memory problem... your machine may have been running on your friends memory only.

1. reseat the memory
2. move the memory into another slot
3a. add more memory
3b. replace the memory


oh btw ... i hoped you turned the machine off complete(unplugged) before replacing memory etc.... if not, that could kill it.

It needed to be euthanized 4 years ago.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by gochiefs

It needed to be euthanized 4 years ago.

chit ... when i first saw the title i thought it was some chick that was having an illicit affair with stumpy.


thought it was some kind of slang ... ya know the "girl got stumped" or something.

[Kerberos]

Originally Posted by augustorm

xp....you've got to be kidding...XP sucks arse
Way too many gamming issues...not to mention security.
Besides, I'm trying to save this thing for my wife. I dont wanna trash it.
Well I do want to build another one for gamming. It is past its prime for games, I do at least recognize that. But even the new machine will have 98SE installed on it. Its the only OS I have used that doesn't have issues with any games i play.

XP does not have gamming issues ... it only has issues to those to ignorant or to lazy to go out and find the correct XP patches for most games. If you have games that are ONLY for 98 then I agree ... but then again if you are only playing 98 games then your 900 should be fine.

One more thing... 98 has just as many holes in it as XP and if you REALLY want to see holes in 98 just keep using it after another year or so when microsuck stops supporting it. That is when you will see holes from hell develop.





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