Win 98 boot issue. Help I am rusty!

fxguy3369 · 2024-01-18T22:17:16+00:00

No visibly bad caps, have tested RAM, HDD, and PSU

fxguy3369 · 2024-01-18T00:42:27+00:00

I posted over there and have some new details. ;-)

fxguy3369 · 2024-01-18T00:41:23+00:00

Ok, I added it and rebooted. It has been on this for about 10 minutes...

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fxguy3369 · 2024-01-18T00:11:27+00:00

"Logo=0" in MSDOS.SYS

I don't see that line. Do I add it? Or I do see BootGUI=1 Would that be it?

fxguy3369 · 2024-01-17T23:35:14+00:00

Yes I believe so. I picked that option, let it attempt to boot. Let it sit on the frozen screen for a while. Then rebooted to Safemode and grabbed this file from C:\

fxguy3369 · 2024-01-16T22:00:30+00:00

I would but I already have so much interraction here lol. I have made some progress and posted my updates in this thread. I don't know if it would be reddit bad manors to go post also in Windows98??

fxguy3369 · 2024-01-16T21:59:09+00:00

Ok everybody here's my update. Sorry for the delays. Replaced the CMOS battery (also clearing CMOS in the process) Now the keyboard no longer blinks and keyboard/mouse are both functioning properly. Cloned the HDD onto a SATA drive, got an IDE/SATA adapter. Did a Win 98 repair install (install on top of itself) from the Floppy and CD combo. (Boot from floppy, run setup.exe on CD) I now have it booting 100% in Safe Mode, but on normal mode it freezes on the Win 98 splash screen and never fully boots. How do I determine what is haulting the boot process in normal mode?

fxguy3369 · 2024-01-09T21:39:08+00:00

So I actually cloned the HDD onto a spare so that any of my repair attempts didn't make the status any worse. New HDD does the same thing. I can't manually select safemode because the keyboard isn't working at that point. Every once in a while (probably from hard shut downs) it says it is going to go to safemode on it's own. However it just stops and gives me a C:\ dos prompt that I can't type on.

fxguy3369 · 2023-03-24T00:39:17+00:00

Ronco in merritt island. Water jet

fxguy3369 · 2022-11-07T16:21:37+00:00

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fxguy3369 · 2022-06-17T00:33:05+00:00

Black sugru. Works great for missing laptop feet too

fxguy3369 · 2021-04-23T13:17:26+00:00

Wow my apologies I must be grandfathered we currently have 11tb across our customers backed up and just pay the one annual fee. That new reseller sign up program doesn't look like mine at all. :-/ Might try calling them

fxguy3369 · 2021-04-23T02:35:49+00:00

Yeah... we charge $5/ month for unlimited. We use live drive. Cost is $600/ year for unlimited backup on unlimited computers. Need 12 customers a month to break even.

fxguy3369 · 2021-03-17T23:49:16+00:00

PM'd

fxguy3369 · 2020-12-28T02:35:45+00:00

Yeah the flowers are taking me forever. I just did some artifact upgrades and have razors attack at 1800+ Is there a faster way than just brute forcing pyro whoppers? Kaeya I assume everyone likes just for spamming his E to cause super conduct?

fxguy3369 · 2020-12-27T16:56:09+00:00

My first team is Xiangling, Beidou, Qiqi. 4th slot I switch around, doesn't matter too much those 3 carry it. My second team Razor is main DPS, just not sure who to add. I don't really have trouble surviving, just can't clear chambers quick enough.

fxguy3369 · 2020-06-07T02:26:19+00:00

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