All I read is to press F8 to get to safe mode for W98.
I was installing a game (Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 demo) and all of a sudden I'm getting the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.
It says a FATAL EXCEPTION 0E has occurred at 0028...
Anyways when I hit F8 on start up I don't see any SAFE MODE prompt? All I see are commands like: Go to old settings, save best settings blah blah blah.
Do I somehow have a different version of W98?
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You need to do an {ESC} as soon as it starts from OFF. This will close any Logos coming up. The time to hit F8 for a menu or F5 for Safemode is exactly when it finished the RAM Countdown. If you aren't seeing the RAM Countdown, go into BIOS and remove "Quick Boot" or whatever. If you still don't see it, use a boot disk to get to C;\ prompt and run this command: c:\scanreg /fix
If this doesn't work try: c:\scanreg /restore and pick a date prior to installing game. Good Luck, Peter
After you reboot a Win9x system, just hold down the Ctrl key and let it reboot, when you see the change to the boot menu containing as the top choice Safe Mode release the Ctrl key. Then choose Safe Mode.
Once in Safe Mode, you can use the Run Command to fix that registry problem (Start>Run>type Scanreg>Enter). Using the startup disk method in DOS as above will do the same thing.
holding down the shift key during boot up will bring you directly into safe mode. Uninstall this nasty program if you can then boot into windows do a searech for all the related files to the nasty and remove them do a scan and defrag and find a program on the web call reg fix from microsoft and run it good luck
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Safe Mode for W98
I was installing a game (Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 demo) and all of a sudden I'm getting the BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH.
It says a FATAL EXCEPTION 0E has occurred at 0028...
Anyways when I hit F8 on start up I don't see any SAFE MODE prompt? All I see are commands like: Go to old settings, save best settings blah blah blah.
Do I somehow have a different version of W98?