Win ME Shuts Down During Boot

First try booting into safemode, if the boot is successful run system restore and try your most recent restore point before the problem arose. If Safe Mode fails, enter the BIOS and turn off all power management features, then on next bootpress F8 and choose BootLog, if the machine stills fails, boot to command prompt, and take a gander at the bootlog.txt file on your root drive, take note of any FAILED files and let me know what they are.

Open the Autoexec.bat file in dos mode and Comment every line using # then, boot the machine.

Hope its boot fine

This is usually a hardware problem.

But, it could also be due to allocation of interrupt 12 into new device.

Boot into safe mode and check in device manager. If it is correct, remove the device. Restart the computer and reinstall the device again.

vh_s

Dear DannyF

WindowsMe, like Windows9x, does not necessarily need any strings on Autoexec.bat file nor Config.sys file.
It seems that one of these two files has been changed since your brother download and install some files.

You can solvethis problem by editing and saving these two files by pressing 'F8' key right after POST screen.

Here is a step by step guide.
1. Go to WindowsMe startup menu by pressing'F8'Key right after POST.
2. Select "safe mode command prompt only" option
3. Type 'edit config.sys' at the C:\
4. Edit the config.sys by inserting "rem" in front of all the strings (if any).
5. Save and exit.
6. Type 'edit autoexec.bat' at the C:\
7. Edit the autoexec.bat by doing the same thing as 4.
8. Save and exit.

Restart your PC by pressing rest button or CTRL+ALT+DEL keys.
You will see it goes to WindowsMe as before.

Cheers.

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