Article: Frozen computer could be the motherboard of all problems

Frozen computer could be the motherboard of all problems

Question: I plugged in the telephone by mistake to connect my internal dial-up modem to the Internet while the machine was turned on. My other computer was turned off, which has a DSL connection. The cursor and the whole machine froze. I could not even turn it off by hitting Ctrl+Alt+Del. I turned it off manually. I was expecting to see the usual system check DOS to come up as it does at times like this. Well, nothing happened. I tried using floppy startup disks, emergency reboot disks, a blank floppy, the Win98 CD, a restore disk, and the F8 and Ctrl keys. None of the MS Win98 startup solutions worked. I don't even know that ...

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