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Hello Jean - 

JP>  Good morning to you Jim, how are you today ? 

JH>> This one may be needing a HDD soon. ( to another user ! ) 

JH>> One way you could do some more checking on it would be to
JH>> run Scandisk a few more times. If more bad clusters keep
JH>> showing up, that is a bad sign. 

JP> This was the problem with this old P166 here, Jim. I wiped
JP> the HDD and then a scan showed quite a few bad ones, near
JP> the start. After a couple of scans, I reloaded it Win 95B
JP> and it has not frozen on me yet. But ! That HDD is quite
JP> noisy, some much ! Even with the covers on the cabinet, I
JP> can hear it loud. I installed the "savior" HDDs from
JP> Montreal as D: & E: and when accessing these, there is no
JP> noise to be heard. I think that the previous owner had some
JP> data on these clusters and when the system was trying to
JP> access them, it barfed a BSoD. Do you agree with my theory ? 

No, I don't. The bearings are going bad in that hard drive.
Total failure is eminent depending on usage of the machine/hard
drive. 

JP> I will bring it home, implant a P233MMX in it and use it as
JP> a test bench. It is a socket 7 so this is as high as it can
JP> be boosted. 

How will a different CPU affect the hard drive or are you just
adding a 'btw' here? 

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