I'm desperate. I need help with my desktop computer. it all started when i
tried to sign on aol and was getting no dial tone. Had no problem the night
before. After numerous calls and so called fixes, I finally reinstalled aol
8.0, to no avail. I try scandisk for my C drive and then ...

I was half way through the latest critical update from
Microsoft on my Win98SE based home LAN server when the big
blackout hit. That PC seems to run OK but now when I try to
rerun the update it keeps saying it failed try again.

I have Windows 98 and when I boot up my machine and it
goes completely through the boot process to my desk top,
it automaticallly reboots. It won't stop rebooting. I
don't know what caused it to start this. Everything seemed

My computer takes about 1 minute to boot up.  It used to
take about 20 seconds or less.  I have installed no new
programs.  I tried scandisk, defrag, empty temporary
internet files to speed up.  Nothing has worked.

Suddenly, my CD drive (TDK CDRW) does not show under My Computer or in
WExplorer.  This despite the fact that the ASUS P4B533-VM MOBO detects
and shows it during boot.  It also shows in Device Manager as okay.
What can some suggest that I can try in order to recover the CD?

When I am loading a new program, I get the error DSHELL
has caused a general protection faultin module MSTEST.EXE
at 0004:000033c6. I then get kicked out back to the main
menu.  Does any know what this means, and how to fix?

I have recently developed a problem with the processor
going into a working loop that stops all other activity
for up to 2 ro 3 minutes.  On a reboot a message appears
concerning 'DJStatusWnd' not responding  and asks if I

I am running Win98, IE6. I have suddenly lost sound from
Web pages. I have sounds enabled in Internet options,
speakers are plugged in and sound works great for CD-ROM
games, etc. I have re-installed IE6 today, with no change

I am getting ODBCCONF: Invalid parameters window that list a bunch of
problems, none of which I understand

For @ I have to press shift and 2.
For " I have to press shift and @
I can't get pound sign fromany key
can you help ?

crrom drive d not available in msdos mode. why? how to fix?

If anyone can help I will be very grateful.  All of a
sudden one of our PCs is starting to show 'low system
resources' messages.  I have done the following:
1) Increased the available conventional memory from 570kb

I have a  Vortex AU8830 PCI Audio device that has quit
working. It is not being used by any other programs when I
try to use it. I was wondering if anybody can direct me to
a download sorce to update the driver or any ideas what

My friend deleted her system.ini file in error.  We
restored that and everything seemed to be working.  She
shut her computer down that night and the next morning it
wouldn't boot up, showed the command.com file missing.  We

I am getting the following messages when booting up and
sticks at the C: prompt after the messages.
Windows\command\display.sys
Windows\command\country.sys