hardware conflict troubleshooter

the hardware conflict troubleshooter does not work from
the help menu or the device manager anymore. i'm having
major probs, drivers, IDE to bus memory hang ups, freezes
etc. anyone have any idea? searched MS all night nuttin
there. help!

I would press the F8 key at start-up to bring up the boot
menu and then choose to boot into Safe mode.

When in that mode, try running a utility such as Defrag.

If there are no problems, then it's probably a
software/driver issue. Updating all of the device drivers
might help.

Entering msconfig in the Start = Run box and disabling
all of the start-up programs and then running the PC to
find out if one of them is responsible might help. If the
PC works with the start-up programs disabled, re-enable
them one at a time to find the culprit.

If you did anything to the PC before this started
happening, try reversing whatever it was.

But if the same problems occur in Safe mode, then its
probably faulty hardware such as an overheating processor
(open the case and make sure its cooling unit is working
properly) bad RAM, a faulty power supply unit.

There are some links to free hardware-testing utilities
he

http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/Links.htm#diagnostics

Eric,
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/
http://www.sharedbirthday.co.uk/


-----Original Message-----
the hardware conflict troubleshooter does not work from
the help menu or the device manager anymore. i'm having
major probs, drivers, IDE to bus memory hang ups, freezes
etc. anyone have any idea? searched MS all night nuttin
there. help!
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A couple of Windows updates broke the Help troubleshooters.
There are two different fixes, depending on the Windows updates you have installed.

The original fix for the older update was this:
First, click Start Settings Folder Options View tab, and click to enable "Show
All Files" and click OK.
Click Start Find File or Folders, and search the C:\ drive for a file named
Tshoot.inf...it should be found in the \Windows\Inf folder.
Right-click Tshoot.inf and click Install on the menu that appears.

If the latest cumulative patch for Internet Explorer is installed, there is only a
workaround.
See he
http://home.comcast.net/~bascon58/98Help.htm
and
http://mvps.org/PracticallyNerded/SoftFixes.htm
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


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the hardware conflict troubleshooter does not work from
the help menu or the device manager anymore. i'm having
major probs, drivers, IDE to bus memory hang ups, freezes
etc. anyone have any idea? searched MS all night nuttin
there. help!