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Vibes
I have Win98SE. Occasionally, at any time, I get this blue screen of death
message (I also occasionally get a boot failure message, when I switch off
and on, and the PC starts normally: I had a new motherboard fitted by
PCWorld recently as the clock way, way out)
I am told in a web site, in respect of "Cannot write to Drive C:"
"Windows supports the standard hard drive controllers (ST506 and ESDI). With
a SCSI or other non-standard controller, SMARTDrive must be loaded. Windows
detects SMARTDrive and directs all disk access requests through it. Most
compatibility problems are eliminated since SMARTDrive acts as a
double-buffering hard disk device driver.
But even with SMARTDrive loaded, you may still get the above error messages.
To correct, add this entry to your SYSTEM.INI file:
[386enh]
VirtualHDirq=off
This is the highest level of compatibility available with Windows."
Q1 How do I determine if Smartdrive is loaded?
Q2 Any dangers if, irrespective of the answer to that, I simply add the
line to System.ini?
message (I also occasionally get a boot failure message, when I switch off
and on, and the PC starts normally: I had a new motherboard fitted by
PCWorld recently as the clock way, way out)
I am told in a web site, in respect of "Cannot write to Drive C:"
"Windows supports the standard hard drive controllers (ST506 and ESDI). With
a SCSI or other non-standard controller, SMARTDrive must be loaded. Windows
detects SMARTDrive and directs all disk access requests through it. Most
compatibility problems are eliminated since SMARTDrive acts as a
double-buffering hard disk device driver.
But even with SMARTDrive loaded, you may still get the above error messages.
To correct, add this entry to your SYSTEM.INI file:
[386enh]
VirtualHDirq=off
This is the highest level of compatibility available with Windows."
Q1 How do I determine if Smartdrive is loaded?
Q2 Any dangers if, irrespective of the answer to that, I simply add the
line to System.ini?