Sounds to me like you have some major driver duplications -
Boot to Safe Mode and open Device Manager there
What entries are duplicated?
What entries are flagged?


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I accidentaly rebooted my computer while it was starting up, and now
everythings going to hell. Whenever I change my display resolution to
higher than the defult, it won't stay there for the next reboot. The
same goes for other settings, and my sound card no longer works. It is
a fairly fresh install of 98 (around 1 month ago), and I have tried
creating new user profiles and updating my video drivers, but nothing
seems to work. I am always back to the defult resoultion and 16 colors
when I reboot. Also, the device manage says that my sound drivers are
up to date and that there are no problems, but Windows Media Player is
saying that there is no sound card.

One of the hard drive controllers has an error in the device manager,
but both drives seem to work.

What can I do to end this problem?