Garbage on Restart After Installation

I'm trying to install 98 on a clean hard drive. The installation goes off
without a hitch, but when it restarts after loading, a bunch of junk
characters are thrown up on the monitor from the top down and the computer
beeps. This happens until it is shut off. Any ideas, anyone?

Me again.
I should also mention that I have partitioned and formatted the drive.
FAT32. Thanks.

"Sue" wrote:

I'm trying to install 98 on a clean hard drive. The installation goes off
without a hitch, but when it restarts after loading, a bunch of junk
characters are thrown up on the monitor from the top down and the computer
beeps. This happens until it is shut off. Any ideas, anyone?

Go into the BIOS setup and make sure boot virus protection is disabled.
Be sure to save any changes when exiting. Then start the computer with=20
a boot floppy and refresh the master boot record and DOS boot sector=20
with the following:

fdisk /mbr
sys c:

Ben

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beeps. This happens until it is shut off. Any ideas, anyone?

Thanks so much Ben! I'll try that as soon as I get home. Funny...but if I
hit F8 (to go into safe mode) the garbage stops, and then I can hit enter to
load Windows (which loads fine). I tried flashing the BIOS thinking that
would solve it, but no luck. I've never seen this before! I'll let you know
how it goes!

"Ben Myers" wrote:

Go into the BIOS setup and make sure boot virus protection is disabled.
Be sure to save any changes when exiting. Then start the computer with
a boot floppy and refresh the master boot record and DOS boot sector
with the following:

fdisk /mbr
sys c:

Ben

"Sue" wrote in message news
Me again.
I should also mention that I have partitioned and formatted the drive.
FAT32. Thanks.

"Sue" wrote:

I'm trying to install 98 on a clean hard drive. The installation goes off
without a hitch, but when it restarts after loading, a bunch of junk
characters are thrown up on the monitor from the top down and the computer
beeps. This happens until it is shut off. Any ideas, anyone?

I tried what you suggested...unfortunately to no avail. I decided to go onto
other stuff. The modem wasn't recognized, so I pulled it out, got the
number, downloaded the drivers, and PRESTO! Garbage gone! I can't even
believe it, but it appears that the generic modem driver was the culprit!

Thanks for the suggestion though. I had about run out of ideas!

"Ben Myers" wrote:

Go into the BIOS setup and make sure boot virus protection is disabled.
Be sure to save any changes when exiting. Then start the computer with
a boot floppy and refresh the master boot record and DOS boot sector
with the following:

fdisk /mbr
sys c:

Ben

"Sue" wrote in message news
Me again.
I should also mention that I have partitioned and formatted the drive.
FAT32. Thanks.

"Sue" wrote:

I'm trying to install 98 on a clean hard drive. The installation goes off
without a hitch, but when it restarts after loading, a bunch of junk
characters are thrown up on the monitor from the top down and the computer
beeps. This happens until it is shut off. Any ideas, anyone?