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Non-Tech : Any info about Iomega (IOM)? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: FuzzFace who wrote (47925)	2/15/1998 12:36:00 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 58324

OT >>Software bug. Whenever I re-installed either Win95 (I've done this too many times already for one lifetime) or either of the Intel drivers, the problem always went away for one re-boot. Upon the second reboot, it always reappeared and stayed.<< Edwin - Sounds to me like you were just having a Plague and Pray problem. As we all know, Plug and Play doesn't always work, to put it mildly. While you were going through all the changes with your system, did you ever boot into Safe Mode and remove all references to hard disk controllers from Control Panel - System - Device Manager? If you never did that, I suggest you try it now. I believe you will find that there are multiple duplicate copies of each of your hard disks and your hard disk controllers. If you remove all of them, the system should boot up, find what you really have and install the drivers, and then work. Windows 95 has a tendency, when you reconfigure hardware, to assume that the devices it sees in the new spots are new devices, and that the old devices are just away on vacation but will be back soon. So it leaves all the registry entries there. But you can't see the duplicate devices unless you go into Safe Mode. I have found that removing the duplicate devices often makes my system stop doing weird things. I'd love to just get a Macintosh. - Allen