CMOS jumpers

[Guest]

I can't get through the boot process on my desktop PC. I'm running Windows 98
SE with a Pentium III CPU. The motherboard is an Intel. Anyways, I can go to
safe mode and get to my desktop but I can't get there going with normal boot.
The only thing that appears is the Microsoft Windows 98 emblem or logo. I
think I have to take out the battery and reset my CMOS. I plugged in the
floppy drive wrong. So, I burned out the floppy drive and had to replace
that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Daniel

 

[Guest]

I can't get through the boot process on my desktop PC. I'm running Windows 98
SE with a Pentium III CPU. The motherboard is an Intel. Anyways, I can go to
safe mode and get to my desktop but I can't get there going with normal boot.
The only thing that appears is the Microsoft Windows 98 emblem or logo. I
think I have to take out the battery and reset my CMOS. I plugged in the
floppy drive wrong. So, I burned out the floppy drive and had to replace
that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Daniel

Try this:
Tab F8 when you Boot up and select Command Prompt from the Boot up options:
on the Command prompt type >scanreg /restore and you will get Cab1,2,3,4,5
all dated select the .cab that worked before (i.e the date where things were
working okay).
HTH.
Let us know.
nass

 

[Guest]

Well, I learned how to do a system restore with Windows 98 SE and I'm
thankful for that. So far it's not working. I took the battery out for 5
mins, and then tried your system restore by using scanreg/restore. I think I
have to re-set the CMOS jumpers. It did say that there was an error with the
sound card at first, and then after it another system restore it said all was
ok. Lets give it another shot right now, hang on.
Nope, nothing but the Microsoft Windows 98 logo or emblem. It won't boot. I
figured to reset the CMOS by taking out the battery, but I need to input some
data I think, reset the jumpers?
Like I said any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks, Daniel

 

[Guest]

Hi,
How old the Battery?.
You may need a new CMOS Battery, also you can access the BIOS by Tapping F2
If I still remember and try to reset the BIOS to default factory.
Can you still Boot into safe Mode?.
If you could then your Video Card or a hardware is the problem look in the
Device manager for malfunctioning devices .
Also you can run this command in Safe mode:
sfc.exe click [OK]
HTH.
nass

 

[Guest]

Well, it turns out I was getting a resource conflict with slot 4 with my
network card everytime I booted. While I was testing each RAM stick to see if
one of those were the culprit, and I decided to move the network card to slot
3, which was empty and not being used by any expansion card, and the PC
booted. All the RAM stick turned out to be good. Now I realized that just
changing the network card over to slot 3 fixed the problem. Now it boots and
the only thing that is wrong now is I have to get the PC online.

Thanks alot,
Daniel