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.

"Penny" wrote in message
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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)

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)