freeze dried

solardust · #1 April 11th, 2002, 08:21 PM

Help!!! My puter keeps on freezing, seems to be an iexplore problem,
it pops up messages such as, iexplore problem send report? I have
Norton"systemworks" installed thought this may help, but no such
luck, takes forever to get to my outlook express, and then most time
says cannot find port,so I can not send or recieve, i press Ctrl,alt,
delete more times in a day than i care to admitt, I also have tried to
reformatt, but when i put in the first disk , its says it cannot find c drive
disk, or something like this, please help, Thanx solardust

[ 11 April 2002: Message edited by: Spider ]

solardust · #2 April 12th, 2002, 01:25 AM

ok its me again, "solardust" and I truly believe all of you will be sorry
you met me, but here is what I have done, I went through old posts
and new ones, I downloaded,"Ad-Aware', and found like over 100 instances,
I then deleted them all, I then restarted the puter cuz I wanted to share
w/all of you all the programs I have running in the ctrl-alt delete area,
well.....I got a new warning "black screen"at start-up(A:/AOATAPI.SYS)
error in CONFIG.SYS on line 3, I hit something right cuz the puter did
reboot, but ohmy what have I done? I bet I deleted something that I
should not of, so...before I go any further, take a look at all these
programs running and please tell me what I should do w/them plus
what about this new warning how do I fix this, Thankyou,
POWER SAVING,
EXPLORER,
WEATHER,
NAVAPW32,
MONWOW,
Gbtray,
Msmsgs,
Ndetect,
Csinsm32,
Reminder,
loadgm,
lucoserver,
Rundll32,
Systray,
Nprotect,
Csinject,
Zonealarm,
Imgicon,
Msgloop,
Msg32,
Qtask,
I know this is BAD,solardust

[ 11 April 2002: Message edited by: Spider ]

**Spider** · #3 April 12th, 2002, 05:10 AM

Hi solardust, welcome to Cyber Tech Help.

Open Notepad and load
c:config.sys
look for the line that has A:/AOATAPI.SYS in it
at the very beginning of that line put rem

so it would look like
rem A:/AOATAPI.SYS

save in Notepad then reboot.

also, I edited your messages because they were a little long-in-the-line.

solardust · #4 April 12th, 2002, 03:03 PM

Thanx spider for the response and fixing my post, could you please give me step by step instructions?I have gone to notepad,but I am doing something wrong, cuz its not working, Thanx,Diana

**Spider** · #5 April 13th, 2002, 05:09 AM

What's happening is when your computer is booting up(starting)
a file (A:/AOATAPI.SYS) is trying to be accessed.

A: is your floppy drive and AOATAPI.SYS is the file that the
computer is told to look for. There are going to be two places this "call"
for the file may exist. C:\config.sys and C:\autoexec.bat

This "call" for the file must be removed from your computer if you want
the computer to boot up into WindowsXX without any interruptions. This
is not going to fix your freezing problems, that is caused by something
else.

Let's open Notepad
go to the menu under
File
then click on
Open...
from there don't click on anything, don't touch your mouse,
just start typing...
type c:\config.sys and then click on the
Open(button)

It should say Config.sys at the very top of Notepad. If Notepad is
blank then let's try autoexec.bat
go to the menu under
File
then click on
Open...
from there don't click on anything, don't touch your mouse,
just start typing...
type c:\autoexec.bat and then click on the
Open(button)

When autoexec.bat (or config.sys) is loaded into Notepad the cursor
will be flashing at the top left. Click and hold down your left-mouse
button and drag over all the text. Let go of the left-mouse button after
all the text has be highlighted(covered) and then go to the menu in
Notepad under
Edit
then click on
Copy

Now when you have the message open here to write a reply, put your
pointer in the area where you normally type and then click once with
your right-mouse button and click on
Paste

This will show us here what you have in those files and then we'll go
from there.

Topdog · #6 April 13th, 2002, 06:18 AM

Just a little point which has been overlooked, may be just a typo, but check it out anyway.
Reference is made to the line in error: A:/AOATAPI.SYS. Should read A:\AOATAPI.SYS.
AS I said, it may just be a typo.....

solardust · #7 April 13th, 2002, 06:37 AM

DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS

devicehigh=rem A:\AOATAPI.SYS /D:IDECD000
This is what I get w/ the first step you have given me.Diana

**Spider** · #8 April 13th, 2002, 06:39 AM

Close...what you want is

rem devicehigh=A:\AOATAPI.SYS /D:IDECD000

solardust · #9 April 13th, 2002, 06:56 AM

ok I went ahead and changed it to look as you said it should, then hit save, rebooted then got this, the following file is missing or corrupted
c:/>loadHigH A:/MSC DEX.EXE/S/D:IDECDOOO/M:10?L:F>nul
not reading drive A
Abort,retry,fail?
c:/>

**Spider** · #10 April 13th, 2002, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Spider:
<STRONG>autoexec.bat
go to the menu in Notepad under
File
then click on
Open...
from there don't click on anything, don't touch your mouse,
just start typing...
type c:\autoexec.bat and then click on the
Open(button)

When autoexec.bat (or config.sys) is loaded into Notepad the cursor
will be flashing at the top left. Click and hold down your left-mouse
button and drag over all the text. Let go of the left-mouse button after
all the text has be highlighted(covered) and then go to the menu in
Notepad under
Edit
then click on
Copy

Now when you have the message open here to write a reply, put your
pointer in the area where you normally type and then click once with
your right-mouse button and click on
Paste

This will show us here what you have in those files and then we'll go
from there</STRONG>

solardust · #11 April 13th, 2002, 06:11 PM

This is what I got,a square w, an triangle and an exclamation mark in the center, saying,c:/autoexec.bat, the above files name is invalid.

Diana

solardust · #12 April 13th, 2002, 06:28 PM

I should also mention, that in my glee of deleteing all the junk that ad-aware, made lite of, I left the recycle bin full, in other words I have not emptied it, is it possible what I need is in there??Diana