I assume that when you choose Boot when asked at the end, nothing happens?

CMOS battery low would explain the error message IF that Save to File or
whatever setting existed. There's only one Power Management setting? It
looks like it's enabled. It doesn't have any kind of sub-menu with a bunch
of other PM-related settings? Did you try disabling PM?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"L." wrote in message
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Aas a followup.
I pulled the battery and the startup stops on the first page asking for;
Press F1 to run SETUP
Press F2 to load default values and continue
Anyway the info is as follows.

American Megatrends Release 11/21/2001 AMIBIOS (C)2000 American Megatrends
Inc.
BIOS ver 2.09

NS570 KBC Version: 1.17
Pentium III,1GHz
Checking NVRAM...
253952KB OK
ICS9248-146 Inside
WAIT....

CMOS Battery Low

Press F1-------
Press F2-------

(C) American Megatrends Inc.
62-0213-009999-001010000-071595-SIS630-1AA0G008-W


If I press F1 goes into BIOS.
F2 load defualts and goes to page 2 of setup.

Page 2:
Main Processor :Pentium III

Math Processor :Built-IN Base Mem Size :
640KB
Floppy Drive A: :1.44 MB 31/2" Ext. mem Size : 247MB
Floppy b none Seriall
3F8
Display Type VGA/EGA Parallel Port 378
AMIBIOS date 11/21/2001 Proc. Clock 1GHZ
Exter. Cache 256KB, Enabled Power Mage. Enabled

Hard Disk Cyl Head Sector Size LBA
32Bit Block PIO UDMA

Mode Mode Mode Mode Mode
Primary Master : 58140 16 63 30006MB LBA On
16Sec 4 4
Sec. Master : DVD-ROM 4 2

PCI Devices:
Onboard IDE Onboard Comm.
Device, IRQ10
Onboard Multimedia Dev. IRQ11 " USB Contr.,
IRQ9
" USB Control. IRQ9 " Ethernet, IRQ10
" PCI Bridge " CardBus
Bridge
Bridge VGA


SDRAM at DIMM # :1

Invalid HIBERNATION partition/file...RUN HDPREPEZ...

Do you want to (B)oot or (P)ower down? __


*** Not sure if any of this helps or not**********






"L." wrote in message
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Sorry for the delays, work.

Not sure exactly what make this thing is.No markings on case.
The only info is on a plate on bottom of system and it's stated "Personal
Computer Model No. N340S8".
Another problem is that this was donated and they isn't any disks, etc.
that came with it.

"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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What is the make/model of the machine?

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MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"L." wrote in message
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Followed your instructions but still no go.

I went into BIOS and set floopy to be "1st Boot Device", inserted
floppy and restarted system.
After intitial startup, goes straight to error msg.

"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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You run BOOTITNG.EXE on the system you used to download it, and it
make's its own bootable floppy (or CD.) You then put that floppy in
the problem machine and boot to it. Once it finishes loading, the
first dialogue you get will be to install BootIt NG (BING) and that's
where you Cancel the installation.

Sorry for the less than clear instructions.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"L.S." wrote in message
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Here's what I've got.
D/L and copied to a floppy BootItng.exe. (had to d/l on another
system)
Made a bootable floppy when I installed Win98se.
Problem is, Iv'e set BIOS to read floppy 1st, Cd 2nd and then HD but
this system isn't following instructions.
When the system starts, I can't hear either disk running and then I
get error msg.

I'm confused, when you say to make a bootable floopy unless you're
taking about something other than the one I create with win98se.
Also, run Bootitng.exe--- how when the system locks up even though I
have the bootable floopy in the drive.


"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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Sorry, that download from BootIt NG is a ZIP file. Unzip that to a
new folder and then run BOOTITNG.EXE file in that folder.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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My suggestion is to get a copy of BootIt NG from www.bootitng.com.
No need to pay, just download the EXE, make a bootable floppy or CD
installer, reboot to the floppy or CD and then CANCEL THE
INSTALLATION! That will drop you into Maintenance Mode where you
can choose Partition Work. See what's listed there in the middle
panel. More than just the one partition where you installed Win98?
If so, please list them for us here, including name, size, type.

What's the make/model of the machine?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com


"L.S." wrote in message
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Followed link.
Problem is there is no such option.
Nothing looks close to an auto Save-to-file option.



"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message
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See he
http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/...ad.php?t=33474

Let us know how it goes, OK?

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

"L.S." wrote in message
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Received a donated laptop for our local historical society.
Reformatted HD, everything worked/loaded, but when I restart
system it locks up, no keyboard, nothing with the following msg.
"Invalid hibernation partition/file run hd-----"
I can get into BIOS, using Del key, but that's it.

I've tried to use the startup floppy that was created during Win
install but no go.
I've put in the win98se cd and still nothing.

Is this a win98se problem or did I do something?