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by frec1

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I have a standalone user not on the network that does word processing. Anyway everytime he boots up, the computer get into Windows 98 but locks up on the desktop before anything loads up. I mean everytime. If it does boot up his has double click a play a real audio file to keep it from locking up. Once it finishes playing the desktop locks up.

Part 2, I can boot up into safe mode and it function fine but I'm curious as to why it locking up in Normal mode.

Action:
I cleaned off the desktop, set the background to the standard windows display, turned off Active Desktop.
What am I missing is this a motherboard error?

SGPRO

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by jansenel

Run msconfig to see what programs are executing upon startup. It sounds like one of them may be the culprit.

You can also do a step by step startup of Windows by pressing F8 before Windows starts. Try eliminating a step at a time starting with the autoexec.bat and config.sys to see where you get the hang up.

by baziite

have you recently added a new device to your system ...If yes the device driver you loaded is causing the problem ...go the device manager by right clicking the my computer and selecting properties . find the device you recently added click on it and press remove . Restart the system and reload the correct device driver . This should solve the prroblem . If you havent installed a new device then you will have to one by one try removing one device and restarting and so on ...until you find the faulty device ...

Good Luck !!!

by zoka11

if you can go in system information (in acesssories) chek conflict device
somting shering and makig conflict

by frec1

I couldn't find what was wrong, I checked the startup and to see if there where any hardware conflicts. Eventually I repartioned and reformated the harddrive and installed an operating system.

It still does it! It seems like something on the motherboard or something is bad. I memory, any suggestions. It doesn't sound like it was in the startup group, config.sys. The hardware can still malfunction and not show in the device manager. How can I go into Safe Mode but the normal is locking up. Itdoesn't make sense. Help me.

FREC

by randem

Is the system old or small enough that windows 98 could just be too much for the system to handle? If borderline try going back to win95.
Good luck:)

by zlitocook

Have the memory checked or put in known good memory. Also try using delpart from microsoft it will compleatly remove any partitions. There could be a bad sector on the hard drive. Use a boot disk with scandisk on it. Try a diffrent video card and besure all cards and connections are tight. Like cables cards and memory.

by frec1

zlito,

I think it is something like that. I mean it boots into safe mode, fine. But as soon and Normal gets to the desktop it locks up. Windows 95 was on the workstation originally. I thought the OS was corrupt did a fresh install with 98. The memory may get to reseated. If there is a bad boot sector is that it for the hard drive. It is recoverable.

Thanks,
Frec

Thanks,
FREC

by jasonschambers

have you recently added a new device to your system ...If yes the device driver you loaded is causing the problem ...go the device manager by right clicking the my computer and selecting properties . find the device you recently added click on it and press remove . Restart the system and reload the correct device driver . This should solve the prroblem . If you havent installed a new device then you will have to one by one try removing one device and restarting and so on ...until you find the faulty device ...

by ccsbz

sometimes drivers get damage and sovle this.
start in safemode go to control panel/system and remove all drivers.
Note: do not remove anything to do with BIOS.
restart system.

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