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Continous rebooting
I'm in a crunch and had to throw a system together this morning and I found a
machine that was a windows 98 machine. When I first brought the system up it recognized the new hardware and then reboot itself. I went ahead and formated the hard drive and re-installed windows 98 and it's doing the same thing. It asks me to log in, then it immediately shows the new hardware, then it reboots itself before I get a chance to do anything else. How can I fix it. |
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Continous rebooting
"Penny" wrote in message
... I'm in a crunch and had to throw a system together this morning and I found a machine that was a windows 98 machine. When I first brought the system up it recognized the new hardware and then reboot itself. I went ahead and formated the hard drive and re-installed windows 98 and it's doing the same thing. It asks me to log in, then it immediately shows the new hardware, then it reboots itself before I get a chance to do anything else. How can I fix it. You did not tell us which components you assembled to make this PC. A motherboard from unit A and a HDD (with OS installed) from unit B, put together, are likely to generate conflicts between "devices" like the MB audio card and the Registry settings. If confident in your skill, and if you know the filepath to necessary device drivers (Win98 or proprietary) your fastest recovery method may be: 1. Boot Safe Mode (with minimum of drivers) 2. Via / Control Panel / System / Device Manager remove all drivers for those devices reported on the last full boot as "new hardware). Then reboot 3. Assuming your BIOS has been set up right (and the MB is configured for MS DOS) your BIOS Plug and Play may allow you instal correct drivers for components new to the Registry. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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It's unfortunate I am unaware of my inventory. I just started working for
this firm, and had a system suddenly fail. I will try this method. Thanks. I've got a feeling I'm going to be posting here quite a bit for a while. Even though I've been in IT for quite some time now (15 years) I'm facing new challanges. The equipment I'm dealing with is supposed to all be the same, yet it's all different brands. In theory it should all be pretty much the same, yet, in some ways it's not. "Don Phillipson" wrote: "Penny" wrote in message ... I'm in a crunch and had to throw a system together this morning and I found a machine that was a windows 98 machine. When I first brought the system up it recognized the new hardware and then reboot itself. I went ahead and formated the hard drive and re-installed windows 98 and it's doing the same thing. It asks me to log in, then it immediately shows the new hardware, then it reboots itself before I get a chance to do anything else. How can I fix it. You did not tell us which components you assembled to make this PC. A motherboard from unit A and a HDD (with OS installed) from unit B, put together, are likely to generate conflicts between "devices" like the MB audio card and the Registry settings. If confident in your skill, and if you know the filepath to necessary device drivers (Win98 or proprietary) your fastest recovery method may be: 1. Boot Safe Mode (with minimum of drivers) 2. Via / Control Panel / System / Device Manager remove all drivers for those devices reported on the last full boot as "new hardware). Then reboot 3. Assuming your BIOS has been set up right (and the MB is configured for MS DOS) your BIOS Plug and Play may allow you instal correct drivers for components new to the Registry. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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