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HP Pavillion, 866 Mhz Pentium 3, 512 Mb Ram, 40G HD, Win ME (unfortunately)
My scandisk and defrag will not finish. I know to sue ctrl+alt+delete and cancel everything but explporer and systray. I do that. Still doesn't work. Sometimes I shut down my comp and it stays at my desktop with no icons. I have to manually shut it down. I get an inproper shut down and scandisk pop up. Even that scandisk won't finish. The only way they will work is for me to boot up in safe mode. This moves around my icons. They are easy to fix, but its a pain. I have run a virus scan and gotten nothing. Can anyone help me?
Do you have the screen saver set to none ? If you have Norton Utilities installed , make Norton Doctor is not running . Any Power Managment should also be set to none ! These are just some things that would make scan disk & defragmenter start over. It could be a # of other things. Reading up on your problem at the Microsoft Knowledge Base , may help you find the source of you trouble with these 2 utilities ! Good Luck,Nick
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I forgot to mention that I've seen alot of post from people with 512MB RAM installed on Windows Me, having problems ! It seems that 256MB is the optimal amount of RAM for WinMe ! Take Care,Nick
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Safe mode is the easiest way to go. No extras are running so its not constantly restarting due to disk write.
Another route is eliminating power management, screen savers, software that runs in the background as Nick suggested.
Entering MSCONFIG and uncheck everything but neccesary items.
pacman's portal for a list of startup items.
Also...While running scandisk and defrag do not touch the mouse or keyboard. Ive experienced people who attempt to play video games, burn cds, watch movies while they defrag.
Im not sure about how the amount of ram would affect it. This might be an issue but i dont have any information about it.
I have 512MB of ram and am able to run scandisk and defrag without starting in safemode after eliminating startup items and killing power management.
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If your hard drive is gasping for its last breaths of air before death, this could also be causing the problem. Get a hardware tester that you can boot to and run a test on your HD. I have worked on many systems that the HD is dying but you'd never know it except for the fact that Scandisk and Defrag won't finish.
David
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Before testing a wounded Hd you should back up important data to removable disk just incase the tests finish it off.
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Then you can always just put on EndItAll 2 and then run it before you scandisk/defrag.
I used to have the same problem with My WinMe HP machine.
~me~
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You may have a processor problem.
Make sure it's not overheating.
If you are overclocking, it's not stable,
because you need a higher vcore setting
(processor voltage) (I'm not sure of the proper voltage settings for Pentium IIIs)
or the processor cannot handle that high of
a frequency. Then reinstall Windows ME.If the Windows ME installation fails on a good and clean HDD with a cab file decoding
error during the file copy process or
when probably during before the file copy process, you receive an error in SUWIN.EXE,
you have possibly a processor overheating problem and/or you need to increase or decrease the vcore value.
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