Is it time to bin it?
Spare PC at home, used for light browsing and homework. 400MHZ Celeron, 64MB RAM. W98SE.
Started to have trouble booting - even in safe mode. The PC would just lock up before boot complete. Suspected a hard drive issue, so loaded the tools on the start up floppy and tried to run scandisk. Stopped halfway through every time and locked up.
Now, getting very annoyed and really suspecting the HD, I tried to run a couple of HD diagnostic tools (particularly Seagate's utility, as it is a Seagate HD). Both programs crashed everytime I ran them.
Time to get serious now, and with little to lose, I decided to reformat and reinstall windows. Fdisk ran OK, deleted primary partition and recreated same. HD formatted OK, then, at the point where it starts copying files needed for installation from the CD, the damn thing locks up again. I've tried this operation a few times, once it did get as far as the initial introduction screen as set up starts, but usually it just hangs while still showing DOS type text.
I am now suspecting a dodgy Mobo, or, just maybe, faulty RAM. Any suggestions peeps?
Tim