dakotatay
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cant boot up windows 98
hi
I hope somebody out there can help me. Everytime I try to boot my computer up, it gives me an error message and tells me I have to reboot the hardrive. It is the ever famous, explorer error and if the problem continues call somebody. I cant even get into the system to even have windows come up. Is there anything I can do. I know there is a safe mode, but I dont know how to get there, or if I can even get there.
Thank you in advance for your help
Dakota
I hope somebody out there can help me. Everytime I try to boot my computer up, it gives me an error message and tells me I have to reboot the hardrive. It is the ever famous, explorer error and if the problem continues call somebody. I cant even get into the system to even have windows come up. Is there anything I can do. I know there is a safe mode, but I dont know how to get there, or if I can even get there.
Thank you in advance for your help
Dakota
try boot to safe mode (just keep tapping F5 during the boot process) if you can get there without probs then bring up msconfig and start removing stuff from the startup menu tab till you get lucky....
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Thanks for the effort. I tried booting in safe mode, but still get the message Explorer caused invalid page fauld in module BROWSEUI.DLL at OISF:7116CCE.
The computer is an HP bought from Comp USA about 2 years ago. I can get through to have the virus detector come up, and the clock settings to change, but then I get the same message as I just wrote. I am stuck. Hopefully, you can come up with something new to help. I would greatly appreciate it
The computer is an HP bought from Comp USA about 2 years ago. I can get through to have the virus detector come up, and the clock settings to change, but then I get the same message as I just wrote. I am stuck. Hopefully, you can come up with something new to help. I would greatly appreciate it
It sounds like your registry is knackered.
Get to the dos menu (either by holding ctrl or tapping f5) and select ms-dos mode.
at the c:\prompt type:
scanreg /fix
This may or may not work. Let us know how you get on.
Get to the dos menu (either by holding ctrl or tapping f5) and select ms-dos mode.
at the c:\prompt type:
scanreg /fix
This may or may not work. Let us know how you get on.
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http://www.bootdisk.com/ and scandisk if you don't have it already: http://www.microsoft.com/windows98/downloads/contents/WURecommended/S_WUFeatured/bigide/Default.asp
sounds like you'll want to scan that drive, might consider putting it in someone else's PC and having that PC scan it, or if you have a spare.
-NEO
sounds like you'll want to scan that drive, might consider putting it in someone else's PC and having that PC scan it, or if you have a spare.
-NEO
Can you add what hardware you are using - components etc.
Have you just built this rig?
What changes have you made recently?
To get into safe mode, hold "CTRL" down when powering on.