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Windows ME Lock Up
Name: Joey Buttafucoo Date: September 21, 2000 at 10:03:26 Pacific
Comment:
Hi there, I have Windows 98 SE OS and I bought the Windows ME 98/98SE upgrade, when I installed the the Windows Me upgrade and when it tried to reboot the damn thing lock! I can only boot up in safe mode, I tried several time to boot up back and forth and still the same thing, I even tried installing Win Me again but still the same problem.I know the ugrade is good because I installed it on my se second hard drive which has a fresh Win 98 installation and it's fine, but what about my first drive that has all my info, tweaks and work I put into it, can someone help me?
Name: Kirk Date: September 21, 2000 at 14:34:51 Pacific
Reply:
Welcome to the world of Mean Engineering or ME. First of all you are fortunate that it comes up in Safe mode. I'd try taking out all the legacy and even PNP ISA cards. Me can even byte perfectly good PCI cards but it is less likely. Hopefully you can get up in normal mode and start adding them back in. Before you pull cards make sure you have the install and driver discs. ME has a minimal capabilities.
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Response Number 2
Name: Fred Osborne Date: September 22, 2000 at 10:56:48 Pacific
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My Win ME, locks up entire PC whenever I clickon "Win ME Media Player". Everything goes dead, mouse quits, media player appears and looks like its "playing"? Can't even turn PC off with tower's on/off switches! Have to pull plug from wall? Software interupts problem? I emailed Microsoft's trouble site - no answer yet. Its a repeatable problem.
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Response Number 3
Name: Neale Riffert Date: September 22, 2000 at 16:15:09 Pacific
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Re: Media Player lock up. I had the same problem, but found the ME installed the Media Player in the Programs file under !$!$!$ mp2. The Media file contained an older version of Media Player. When I deleted the old version and moved the files for the new version into the Media file all went well.
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Response Number 4
Name: Amar Date: November 7, 2000 at 00:19:18 Pacific
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Joey, I believe I have the same problem as you. When Windows ME is detecting my hardware during installation, my computer locks up too. Did you overcome this problem? If so, how?
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Response Number 5
Name: Mike Date: March 4, 2001 at 19:10:25 Pacific
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my computer always locks up. it won't respond to control-alt-delete. does anyone know how to fix this problem?
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