Jan. 18 — An order of 16 brand new Windows 98 Pentium III 866 MHz PCs with 30 GB DeskStar hard drives turned out to be anything but the “latest and greatest,” a BugNet reader reports. Data loss and repeated crashes seemed to be caused by hard drives failure, but on all 16 machines? Other users have observed Pentium III Windows Me machines flashing the “Windows not properly shut down” message and running Scandisk upon reboot, even though the computers “had been correctly shut down.” And testers at KeyLabs have spotted similar symptoms on a Pentium III 933 MHz test machine with a 30 GB drive.
THE FAULT WAS NOT with the drives, but the operating system. Microsoft tweaked Windows 98 to take “dramatically less” time to shut down than Windows 95. And they shaved off a few more seconds with Windows Me by eliminating Real Mode DOS support during start up and shut down. When further supercharged with 800 MHZ Pentium III microprocessors, Windows 98 and Me outran the hardware at times, powering off the computer before the hard drive’s on-board drive cache could finish writing out the buffered data. Even when the lost data was non-critical, Windows would interpret the interruption as an improper shut down, and run Scandisk in order to “fix” the missing data.
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THE FAULT WAS NOT with the drives, but the operating system. Microsoft tweaked Windows 98 to take “dramatically less” time to shut down than Windows 95. And they shaved off a few more seconds with Windows Me by eliminating Real Mode DOS support during start up and shut down. When further supercharged with 800 MHZ Pentium III microprocessors, Windows 98 and Me outran the hardware at times, powering off the computer before the hard drive’s on-board drive cache could finish writing out the buffered data. Even when the lost data was non-critical, Windows would interpret the interruption as an improper shut down, and run Scandisk in order to “fix” the missing data.
Want to learn more?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/517823.asp
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-Administrator / Owner
"Everything was true. God was an astronaut. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed