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To: Jeff Lins who wrote (9833)	12/21/1998 8:46:00 PM
From: Michael Linov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

--OT-- First thing first, shut off power management on the BIOS. It doesn't really work, and is useless on anything but a laptop. If this doesn't fix the problem, you almost certainly have a bad HD. I sincerely doubt this is a software problem (though I suppose a virus could do it, if it tried). Get it replaced if it persists, as you will likely eventually lose valuable data, if not the entire drive. It's not always the HD either, sometimes a flaky PowerSupply can do this too. Good Luck!

To: Jeff Lins who wrote (9833)	12/21/1998 10:29:00 PM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

My problem is that when I leave the computer alone for a while, I get the following message: "couldn't write data to drive C (or defghijkl)- data may be lost". Do you have a UMAX scanner? Is your system SCSI? Pat

To: Jeff Lins who wrote (9833)	12/22/1998 3:06:00 AM
From: Chip Anderson	Respond to of 16960

OT: I _completely_ agree with Michael on the Power Management stuff. It has never worked on a desktop system for me and it barely works on most laptops as well. I disable all of it immediately. I've only seen that message on a Blue Screen when the Power Management stuff got in the way. Chip coolhistory.com "Now with NEW discussion groups"

To: Jeff Lins who wrote (9833)	12/22/1998 12:45:00 PM
From: Curbstone	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 16960

* OT * Jeff, I realize that what I'm about to say may be contoversial, but I had mega-problems with blue-screen errors and kernel32.dll errors and others too numerous to mention. I feel your pain, man. BUT, all that ended last week when I took a deep breath, put on my disguise, slipped into Costco unnoticed, and upgraded to Windows 98. Not one single crash since then. NOT ONE. What I've been told by a long time beta tester of Microsoft OS products is that Win98 is not merely a patch of Win95 it is a TOTAL re-write of the OS. I have to say that it just "feels" tighter, faster, better. Just Do It, Mike