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by newfie_broad

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I'm currently stumped by a hp pavilion 6330 with a 4gb hard drive that's running Win 98.The machine will boot as far as the start up screen saver then no farther.When it asks if I want to start it in safe or normal mode it restarts itself,but will go through the step by step confirmation and the command prompt.What am I missing?

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by grumpyroger

Sounds like the system files have become corrupt, and Win98 needs to be re-loaded, try to use win98 /2 edition when re-installing. If you have no important data on the Hard drive I would first do a format/s, then install. Hope this helps

by dmiles

Try using a win 98 startup disk load into floppy drive and boot computer,when the floppy is engaged and screen shows option choose to boot without cd rom support,when finished eject the floppy and reboot,if this works try udating the video driver

by carlitosway

Try doing what dmiles wrote but also try this when the machine finishes loading and you are at the dos prompt:

Type sys c:

This will tranfer and replace the system files on your hard disk.

Hope this helps

by zar

one m ore thing you can try is booting up with the star up disk and the restoring the regristry from the copies on the HD, to do this after the bood go to the command prompt >c: and type scanregchose to restore de registry form copies and chose a registry copy with a date previous to the day you started to have problems.
if this does not worl then take you data out and reinstall

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