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Starts booting then h/w switches off
I have an HP desktop system for many years and ISTR it has a Pentium 400
processor with a 40GB HDD and I run Win98 on it. The configuration I've got has run for years. But recently something seems to have happened. Now I find that when I boot, the BIOS startup seems ok and then my bootmanager starts. I use "BootIt" and it lives in a tiny partition at the end of the hard drive. But after about a minute (during which I see only a blank screen) the system switches itself off. Can I refresh the system files on the hard drive by using the Win98SE cd? It's been so long since I'v had to deal with this that I would welcome any useful tips or things to watch out for. After doing this Win98 CD refresh then I guess I need to get the Win98 fixes up to the right level and to make any customisations I want to the systems's apearance . Is there any other technical work I should do? |
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