Re: hello, im kevin Folz, i volunteered for clean North's BOYD... i have a question

[Dan Brosemer <odin@svartalfheim.net>]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 01:14:07PM -0700, Kevin 'hu.T% wrote:
> at 4:00 i was able to score a free computer (that was originaly for
> sale), but... in my excitement i forgot to grab a NIC card from that
> large pile of misc cards... also....... I tried the computer at my house
> and it freezes on windows 98 Startup screen (i inserted my 1GIG HD from
> my other computer that already had everything installed)  i figure its a
> video card failure.... since also it freezes on the Quake 1's (Dos game)
> starting demo (i used a startup disk to get into command prompt)... i
> removed all excess hardware, and tried a fresh install of win98... but
> still no sucess in SafeMode or Normal....

I'd as easily believe RAM, but video card is possible.

> Questions:
> 
> Does anyone have a one of those nic cards so i can use my highspeed
> internet ?
>
> Does anyone have a semi-decent video card (2MB) from that pile that is
> better then the one in this comp. that i can have? 

For anyone else, no... but we'll find you something.  Just give it a couple
days for our aching muscles to heal.  I'll email you when I've found
something.

> Or... is something else the problem; causing Windows98 startup screen to
> freeze and lock-up

I'd suspect the RAM first.  Grab a copy of memtest86 from
http://www.memtest.org/ and see if it finds any problems.

Good luck.

-Dan

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