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I have a machine that is a clone PIII800 running Windows98. This machine is constantly popping up a window that says "Windows has encountered an error with the registry and will be restarted". Upon restarting the machine will run fine for a while. Ithought it was a software problem. Then ruled that out because the whole system was redone. I suspect hardware, maybe processor or memory. Already have replaced the hard drive with a new one. Any suggestions?

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by pinoy_teknik

Well i encounter that kind of error, after i upgrading my memory.....128 to 192 MB....

How much memory do you have? and how many dimm...
Is it 2, 3, 4,...if it is try to put only one memory in the first dimm bank....power it on...then boot....itclear the error.....you know where's the problems come's from.........but, if the error are still there...try other memory......or in short TROUBLESHOOT THE MEMORY ONE BY ONE!!!.

try it....it can help!!!!!1

by sfhsgrad00

You might want to try running some kind of Registry Checker/ Cleaner. It could be that there are invalid entries in the system registry that the system needs. You may even want to reinstall Windows98, you won't lose any data on the system, but it will put a clean copy of the operating system on your computer, and will rewrite the system registry.

by pgcarter

It is a software problem, likely the result of the system being "redone", the only way a registry error is hardware is a corupt hard drive and in that case it would be the least of your problems. I suggest rename the win.com file something like win.old and reinstalling the os(win98).
Good luck,
hope this helps

by maddiuex

I agree with Answer one, this could be the problem, A great memory checker can be found at www.bootdisk.com, under utlities. I to had this happen, and corrected the issue.
Also do a msconfig and check in the startup folder, uncheck everything.Hope this helps?

by lparra

What do you mean exactly by "the whole system was redone." If Win98 was simply re-installed on top of itself (i.e., to the same c:\windows directory) the registry was not replaced. Try using Scanreg to either fix or restore the registry. You willhave to restart in MS-DOS mode (Commnand Prompt from the Startup Menu). Type "scanreg /fix" w/o the quotes at the prompt. If this does not fix the problem try "scanreg /restore" at the prompt instead. You will be given a dated list of backed up copies of your registry. Choose a date that corresponds with the last time you were able run your PC without registry errors.

There are also several shareware utilities available on-line that help diagnose and fix registry problems, but they maynot be of much use if you can't keep your PC running long enough to install and run them ;>) Good luck.

by jbhardesty

By redone I mean fdisk started from scratch. Also have tried scanreg. But I thank you all for helping me.

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