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Over the last three days, I've tried to access two separate youtube
links on two separate occasions to find the W98 system freezes as the
page is initially displayed. No keybd/mouse response. Required a
hardware reboot to recover. I don't normally access youtube, but had
done so in the previous week without problems.
First link was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZM779jJJFo
The first time the problem occurred, I did a quick disk check - lost
clusters found (and repaired).
I retried the same link with number crunching background activity
disabled - with the same result. Repeated disk check and then
attempted to run defrag - incomplete after hitting a bad sector. This
was repaired by running a complete disk check, including the surface
test, after which the defrag would complete.
Retried the link a third time with number crunching disabled - with
the same result. Disk checked again without errors.
The failed attempt to reach a differing Youtube link today (same
system freeze), suggests that the problem wasn't going away by itself.
The browser used is still the older Mozilla 1.7.11 - no changes here
in over a year, and none expected in the future (without migrating to
firefox or seamonkey).
Trying for the same link using IE6 (rarely used but as up to date as
MS permits) I got a blue screen that would not recover but that
allowed a keybd ctrl/alt/del to reboot.
Repeating this (if only to note down the OE exception number) produced
normal performance.....?
Repeating the attempt using default Mozilla then also produced normal
performance.
What could be responsible for this strange behavior in this W98 2ed OS
(-8th year without reinstall)?
Of course the youtube link was a waste of time, as usual.
RL
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links on two separate occasions to find the W98 system freezes as the
page is initially displayed. No keybd/mouse response. Required a
hardware reboot to recover. I don't normally access youtube, but had
done so in the previous week without problems.
First link was:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZM779jJJFo
The first time the problem occurred, I did a quick disk check - lost
clusters found (and repaired).
I retried the same link with number crunching background activity
disabled - with the same result. Repeated disk check and then
attempted to run defrag - incomplete after hitting a bad sector. This
was repaired by running a complete disk check, including the surface
test, after which the defrag would complete.
Retried the link a third time with number crunching disabled - with
the same result. Disk checked again without errors.
The failed attempt to reach a differing Youtube link today (same
system freeze), suggests that the problem wasn't going away by itself.
The browser used is still the older Mozilla 1.7.11 - no changes here
in over a year, and none expected in the future (without migrating to
firefox or seamonkey).
Trying for the same link using IE6 (rarely used but as up to date as
MS permits) I got a blue screen that would not recover but that
allowed a keybd ctrl/alt/del to reboot.
Repeating this (if only to note down the OE exception number) produced
normal performance.....?
Repeating the attempt using default Mozilla then also produced normal
performance.
What could be responsible for this strange behavior in this W98 2ed OS
(-8th year without reinstall)?
Of course the youtube link was a waste of time, as usual.
RL
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