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by aring

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I have a intel se 440bx-2,phoenix bios 4,problem started when I installed win me on c and win 2000 pro on a seprate partition,win 2000 corrupted win me,I fdisked and formated back to one primary partition,tried to load win98,,it will not load completely,it freezes and crashes.Also when computer posts,it hangs a long time before trying to load,then error messages,all different...thanks

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by aring

It hangs right after it counts memory,loads keyboard and mouse,it hangs for a long time at that point then trys to load windows.I have had it in safe mode,no help.

by aring

It hangs right after it counts memory,loads keyboard andusb ports,it hangs for a long time at that point then trys to load windows.Now when I go to safe mode,itsays error,himem.sys has detected unreliable xms memory at address 03000006 xms driver not installed,himem.sys is missing,windows has stopped working.

by schillertrade

In safe mode, go to start>run> type MSCONFIG in the box, then click OK. Change startup selection to "selective startup" then uncheck "load startup group items". Then reboot and continue loading Windows 98. If you are successful, change the startup back to "normal".

by netuser

I recommend you to get a partition magic to take care of it then you can install your 3 different o/s with no problems.

by aring

I have only one partation now,which I am trying to put one operating system on it,just finished fdisk and format,computer still hangs after ram is counted,windows will not load without errors and will not run,blue screen

by jamitupya

The Only thing i can think of is a total rebuild...pull pc apart n put it back together piece-by-piece

then fdisk hdd back to 1 partition each and fdisk -mbr c:
re-install win98se....then 2kpro...makesure if installing 2kpro...dont convert/format to ntfs as it will blow 98up if on same drive if seperate drive...go for it.. butcant use tha ntfs partition in Win98

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