My neighbor has an AMD K6 533 motherboard (not sure of the make) that I am having an unusual problem with
He has 98 SE on it
32 megs ram
SiS 530 integrated video
CM 18737 sound
Lucent winmodem

The HD was a Fujitsu 6.4 that had developed bad sectors. A few weeks later it developed more & we couldnt get the cdrom tray to open
So I replaced the cd with a Mitsumi 48x & the HD with a Western Digital 20 gig, formatted & loaded everythng fresh
Basically all he uses it for is email

About a week back he said that he was getting a general failure error reading drive C on startup. I downloaded the latest WD DiskTools. It found a problem & fixed it. Did not mark any bad sectors. Scandisk found some lost clusters that required me to overlay windows. I thought I was done

A few days later this happened again. The Wd tools fixed it. The thoruough test reports the drive fine. No bad sectors
I noticed that the volume control and AV wasnt loading in the systray. Clicking on the show volume control in taskbar checkbox in multimedia did nothing. Scandisk found and fixed some lost clusters again. SFC didnt work at all. So I overlayed 98 again & all has been fine for a few days.

What could be causing this? My first inclination is to say power. He does not have it plugged into a surge supressor. I advised him to get one. We have had some bad storms but not outages.

Maybe flaky IDE cable? The connections are good. I checked that
Maybe controller on the motherboard?

Any thoughts?

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Keep it simple!

[This message has been edited by PCSolutions (edited 04-16-2001).]