First, I suggest you grow up and change your user name if you want help on
this board. . My 5-year-old grand niece wanted to know what it meant.
HH


"blow me" wrote in message
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On Sun, 9 Nov 2003 16:32:41 -0500, "Al T" wrote:

Very slow to boot, nothing on Control Panel functional (so no
diagnostics),
suggestions from the group??

System had been unexpectedly shutting down after running ~1 hour - but now
doing better (up 5 hours) after removing cover and vacuuming out years of
dust.

Does this Compaq require "Compaq Windows98" or have hard drive reformats
and
complete reloads with Windows98 SE been successful? Machine acquired
second-hand from a classmate, without software.

Compaq (and HP) websites useless.

Thanks Al

it will run smoth with windows 98 se on it or upgrade to xp