check this:
boot your system by CD or Floppy and run scanreg with "/restore" and restart your system. it is located in your windows command directory.
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Windows 98 boot up stops after loading wallpaper
Hi,
The problem is this:
Start up Windows....seems to be going fine. Windows 98 banner displayed etc etc then I see wallpaper and a mouse pointer. At this point boot up stops and the computer stays like this. It has not completely frozen, I can move the mouse and can on pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete I see the task manager window displaying that no tasks are running.
If I try running safe mode the same thing happens. I see the wallpaper and then it just stops. In the bootlog file everything seems to have loaded successfully.
Any ideas anyone?
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there is no virtual memory while at the coomand prompt in dos however, when scanreg /restore fails and you can't find anything else to do yet you don't want to format cause you need some of the data on the machine that's too large to move to a cd from DOS then you can do the following
AFTER ASSEMBLING A COLLECTION OF YOUR DRIVER CD'S AND DISKS AND WINDOWS 98 CD KEY, DO THE FOLLOWING:
First off: use the MSDOS Move command to move your needed files that you want to keep to a specific folder ( Move C:\foldername\filenemt C:\destinationfolder )
I'd move it to the "C:\MyDocu~1" folder
but that's just me you can choose whatever ones you like provided it isn't any of the following folders
next step I'd delete the folders that would cause windows to possible have conflicting issues from running a crappy reinstall over the old system
I'd do this by using
Deltree C:\Progra~1
then sit back watch tv let it run it takes a bit of time to do this step ( windows is stupid that way )
then I'd run
Deltree C:\windows
I am sure this sounds crazy but it serves as doing the same thing as formating but without formating.
after this has ran it's course get your bootable windows 98 cd insert it and boot to setup. run setup and all should be well
if you can't do it that way cause you're system won't boot to cd then goto www.bootdisk.com and download the windows 98 SE bootdisk and after getting it downloaded watch the screen cause it will tell you the cd rom drive is Drive "?" look for that and then goto that drive ( we will assume it's Q)
so then it's
Q:
cd win98
C:
md windows
cd windows
md options
cd options
md cabs
cd cabs
copy Q:*.* C: ( again this is assuming Q is the cdrom name provided by the bootdisk)
Then I'd run
C:
setup
have your windows 98 cd key ready and be prepared to reinstall your drivers problem solved.
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by: jonmckinlayPosted on 2003-09-16 at 11:25:44ID: 9372375
Have you tried disabling the virtual memory, this is a common casue of boot problems that crash at the GUI stage. The swap file sometimes gets corrupted. May be worth trying as a starting point.
cheers
Jon