>>>Hello NT experts,
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>>>The reason I trying to contact you is to get help with NT 4.0. I run it at work and it is very stable. I just bought a new machine for home with NT 4.0 preinstalled, and it crashes about 50% of the time when I access the CD-ROM or floppy drives. This is so frustrating!! I get the 'Blue Screen of Death' with all of the numbers and then the machine reboots itself. PLEASE HELP!! If you could email me with any suggestions at
meyert@ibm.net, I would greatly apprecite it!! Thank you!!
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>>>Todd Meyer, novice NT user who should have purchased Windows '95
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>>Have you installed service pack 3 yet?
>Todd,
>Do not worry. I suspect the only thing you need is a BIOS upgrade. I've seen the same symptoms on a bunch of Compaq machines after installing NT4.0 and and ROMPAQ upgrade did the job..
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>Good Luck
This problem happened to me on a brand new Dell Demension XPSP200S. I had NT4 with SP2. SP3 fixed it. I think it was a bug in SP2. A BIOS upgrade (if such a thing existed for such a late model machine) wasn't necessary.
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