Can't Start Up in Normal Mode Win98SE HELP HELP

[Michael Roback]

I have been having problems defragging my hard drive over the past few
months. It either runs very slow or it ends up in an endless loop and
doesn't complete. I was able to defrag in safe mode a few weeks ago. I am
running on an older self built system that is fine for my needs. All I use
it for is a visual basic database, office, winfax, and internet
surfing/email. I used a third party defrag yesterday and it told me it
couldn't run as I was missing some dll. Well it went from bad to worse.
Now, when I boot up I get error messages saying that there isn't enough
memory to open c:/system, not enough memory to run
c:/programfiles/microsoftoffice/office/OSA.exe. When I clear the startup
list to nothing selected, it boots fine and I can even access the internet
as I am doing here, but the icons on the desktop are all oversized, and when
I go to print a document I get a machine language error message. I have
tried cleaning up my registry; running SFC, checking for viruses, etc. with
no improvement. I tried reinstalling Office 97 and it said that i.e. was an
older version that what I have installed and it would cause problems (I
think there is a trick with this ... (kernel32???). Seems to me that there
is a way to install Office 97 over Windows 98 and then update i.e. to the
current version but I forgot how. I tried installing Office 2000 but it
would not install it (can't remember the error message). I am lost and do
not want to reformat my HD as I don't have everything backed up. It seems
like a low level problem as I can launch documents (can't print). Can
anyone help. Would Norton Utilities help???

 

[Conor]

I have been having problems defragging my hard drive over the past few
months. It either runs very slow or it ends up in an endless loop and
doesn't complete. I was able to defrag in safe mode a few weeks ago. I am
running on an older self built system that is fine for my needs. All I use
it for is a visual basic database, office, winfax, and internet
surfing/email. I used a third party defrag yesterday and it told me it
couldn't run as I was missing some dll. Well it went from bad to worse.
Now, when I boot up I get error messages saying that there isn't enough
memory to open c:/system, not enough memory to run
c:/programfiles/microsoftoffice/office/OSA.exe. When I clear the startup
list to nothing selected, it boots fine and I can even access the internet
as I am doing here, but the icons on the desktop are all oversized, and when
I go to print a document I get a machine language error message. I have
tried cleaning up my registry; running SFC, checking for viruses, etc. with
no improvement. I tried reinstalling Office 97 and it said that i.e. was an
older version that what I have installed and it would cause problems (I
think there is a trick with this ... (kernel32???). Seems to me that there
is a way to install Office 97 over Windows 98 and then update i.e. to the
current version but I forgot how. I tried installing Office 2000 but it
would not install it (can't remember the error message). I am lost and do
not want to reformat my HD as I don't have everything backed up. It seems
like a low level problem as I can launch documents (can't print). Can
anyone help. Would Norton Utilities help???

Nope. Norton Utilities would not. You're at re-install stage. You're
about ot learn a hard lesson about backing up important data.

 

[Stacey]

When I clear the startup
list to nothing selected, it boots fine and I can even access the internet
as I am doing here,

I am lost and do
not want to reformat my HD as I don't have everything backed up.

Sounds like the machine is still running, better back up NOW and go from
there. Start pokeing around some more and you might end up with no choice
but to reinstall.
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[Shep©]

I have been having problems defragging my hard drive over the past few
months. It either runs very slow or it ends up in an endless loop and
doesn't complete. I was able to defrag in safe mode a few weeks ago. I am
running on an older self built system that is fine for my needs. All I use
it for is a visual basic database, office, winfax, and internet
surfing/email. I used a third party defrag yesterday and it told me it
couldn't run as I was missing some dll. Well it went from bad to worse.
Now, when I boot up I get error messages saying that there isn't enough
memory to open c:/system, not enough memory to run
c:/programfiles/microsoftoffice/office/OSA.exe. When I clear the startup
list to nothing selected, it boots fine and I can even access the internet
as I am doing here, but the icons on the desktop are all oversized, and when
I go to print a document I get a machine language error message. I have
tried cleaning up my registry; running SFC, checking for viruses, etc. with
no improvement. I tried reinstalling Office 97 and it said that i.e. was an
older version that what I have installed and it would cause problems (I
think there is a trick with this ... (kernel32???). Seems to me that there
is a way to install Office 97 over Windows 98 and then update i.e. to the
current version but I forgot how. I tried installing Office 2000 but it
would not install it (can't remember the error message). I am lost and do
not want to reformat my HD as I don't have everything backed up. It seems
like a low level problem as I can launch documents (can't print). Can
anyone help. Would Norton Utilities help???

Usually faulty RAM.If you have two sticks of SD or DDR ram try one
stick at a time in each slot?



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