Topic: 98se question. (Read 14994 times)

E_Look · « **Reply #80 on:** January 18, 2004, 12:07:42 am »

Guys, I think when it comes to buying HDs, it's the luck of the draw, or reverse lottery. Chances are with any name brand, you'll get a good drive that lasts quite some time, but every now and then, you get a lemon. I think this is true also of stuff like RAM sticks and mobos and CPUs. Most of the time, this stuff is okay.

TB613 · « **Reply #81 on:** January 18, 2004, 12:33:17 am »

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Guys, I think when it comes to buying HDs, it's the luck of the draw, or reverse lottery. Chances are with any name brand, you'll get a good drive that lasts quite some time, but every now and then, you get a lemon. I think this is true also of stuff like RAM sticks and mobos and CPUs. Most of the time, this stuff is okay.

With anything in a computer that has moving parts, HDs in particular, how they have been handled during shipment is very important. Even though newer drives can take rather high transient G forces if they come from different directions and extremely close together the chances of later failure increase. I have had two HDs fail with one going after the warrantee had expired and the other (a whopping 2 GB drive) a week after I had bought the computer.

E_Look · « **Reply #82 on:** January 18, 2004, 01:54:01 am »

Yeah, I always worry whenever I recieve a shipment of an OEM packaged hardware item. It always seems to come with 1) less protective looking (doesn't mean that it IS, however) packaging and 2) a much, much shorter warranty than the same thing in a retail package.

Towelie · « **Reply #83 on:** January 18, 2004, 02:07:45 am »

I've had zero issues with Seagate. Maxtor has been trouble free. I remember the two most unreliable, Fujitsu, and Conner. But that was a while back.

IMHO, I trust companies that have been at it a while. I know WD and Seagate have had a long history, not to say others haven't. And there is also the treatment of the drives, enviroment, cooling, motion ect.

Bonk · « **Reply #85 on:** January 18, 2004, 10:40:06 am »

Strange I've heard so many say this of WD now, yet I have sworn by them for years, never had a problem. I think they have been aquired by Maxtor recently? Perhaps the WD drives are not getting the attention they used to? I did get a bad sector on a Maxtor once, but have found Seagate and Quantum pretty reliable in the past.

Iceman · « **Reply #86 on:** January 14, 2004, 01:38:11 pm »

So, I came home from school today round 2:30 and started up the computer. I go to open my mp3's, and all my folder settings have been returned to default. Any ideas? I know for a fact that I did not change them and neither did my mother, the only other person in the house at the current time.

DreadlordGW · « **Reply #87 on:** January 14, 2004, 01:47:51 pm »

Improper shutdown can sometimes cause the defaulting.

Beyond that i'm not sure

Iceman · « **Reply #88 on:** January 14, 2004, 02:11:09 pm »

No, that wasn't it. I shut it down correctly last night so that's ruled out. Is it a virus possibly?

Another question that may/may not be related. My dad uses outlook express for e-mail through his comcast account. Lately we've been getting 10-15 undeliverable messages daily. (that weren't sent from him). Is this possibly a virus? I know he's not sending these cause he's simply not here.

Sirgod · « **Reply #89 on:** January 14, 2004, 02:25:42 pm »

It almost probably is a Virus given the email part. I would def. update the virus deff. and or grab a virus scanner, I think AVG is free still. Check that out first, run a complete scan and see what comes up.

Stephen

Dallas · « **Reply #90 on:** January 14, 2004, 02:38:03 pm »

When I used 98 sometimes the associations would get wonky for no reason.
What you said about Outlook Express sounds funky. I'd run a scan just to be
safe and then I would turn off the preview window in Outlook Express.

Iceman · « **Reply #92 on:** January 14, 2004, 04:38:59 pm »

I have Norton 2003 (with the subscription, so Im up to date). I'm going to install ZoneAlarm and that Search and Destroy program you suggest, although I've run AdAware and Norton before, I hope maybe it'll find something this time. Thanks for all the advice guys!

Javora · « **Reply #93 on:** January 15, 2004, 11:35:23 am »

Since no one has mentioned this I would suggest running HiJack This. This program seems to find things that others miss. If you need help with this program you can go to the Tech Support Forums for assistance. You may also want to go ahead and run that other virus scan, this might be a new virus that Norton has not had time to release an update for. IMHO Norton has a poor track record in this regard. Hope this helps.

KOTH-Steel Claw · « **Reply #94 on:** January 15, 2004, 12:22:31 pm »

It could be that someone else with your dad's email address in their contact list got hit as well and the virus is using his addy to send out crud.

When was the last time you did a re-install of the OS? 98 had a tendency to need a little re-installing from time to time. You can also run Spider, AdAware, and Spybot (in that order) as well (besides keeping your AV up to date).

Iceman · « **Reply #95 on:** January 15, 2004, 02:22:39 pm »

Spybot found 35 or so things, which were in turn removed. Most benign, but i think it's all better now! Thank you all so much!

Towelie · « **Reply #96 on:** January 15, 2004, 07:25:14 pm »

Srorched Earth time for 98se! Deltree /windows /e/a (I think that was it) and deltree \progra~1 /e/a and then re-install! Anytime I had an improper shutdown or something just didn't look right...

Just messing around. I did re-install W98se a few times though when ever my father or something killed it.

Iceman · « **Reply #98 on:** January 16, 2004, 10:25:44 am »

That's not really a possibility, since it's Comcast and I don't think they support multiple addresses, but I'm not sure. I'll have to look into it. Thanks.

Iceman · « **Reply #99 on:** January 16, 2004, 02:34:14 pm »

I seem to be getting closer and closer to a catastrophic failure here. I found 6 trojan horse infections that Norton ID'd but could not repair. Luckily it was nothing vital, so I quarantined and deleted them. So I went to play Homeworl2, and found some issue with displaying the ships geometry. So I download the patch, restart, and it says my ATI Drivers are out of date. Duh, I say thats why the geometry was all buggered. So I update. It says to reboot, I do, and I get a bad sector error. Can someone explain what a bad sector is?

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