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Windows 98 Acting funny after restart in middle of boot
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? |
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Windows 98 Acting funny after restart in middle of boot
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? -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2006, Windows) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.crashfixpc.com/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "BIll" wrote in message oups.com... 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? |
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Windows 98 Acting funny after restart in middle of boot
If this problem is less than five days old, restore a copy of the registry
that predates the onset of the problem and see if that helps. The five-day limit assumes that the computer is booted every day. If it is not booted every day, you may have an old enough registry backup that you can use even though more than five days have elapsed. Note that any registry changes made after the date of the restored registry will be lost. On the Start Menu, select Shut Down and Restart in MSDOS Mode. At the Windows prompt, type: scanreg /restore and hit enter. Once the registry restore screen appears, select the date of the registry that you wish to restore by highlighting it and then click enter. If you see a registry named: Rbbad.cab, that is a copy of the registry that has already been replaced. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "BIll" wrote in message oups.com... 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? |
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Windows 98 Acting funny after restart in middle of boot
Rebooting the PC while it is starting up shouldn't have that kind of
effect. Did you reboot by pressing the Reset button? What happens when you enter Safe mode? I would try opening the Device Manager and removing the video card and *all of the entries* of devices that have more than one instance showing, so that Windows can reinstall the drivers. If that doesn't work, I would try reinstalling Win98 to a different folder from the Windows folder. You have the option to choose the name of the folder to install it to during setup. If it works, you can recover your files if you didn't back them up. Alternatively, a format and reinstall is probably the only way out of that. Eric, PC Buyer Beware! http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/ |
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