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Continous rebooting at startup

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by missouri man

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Inital booting after power on, computer goes through the normal process until loading win98. After reaching blue screen, before grafics, the machine begins the rebooting process over again. Usually on the second booting it completes the process and the desktop appears and all is well. Any suggestions on what's causing this?

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by ghunter

Once Windows does boot, go into Control Panel, System, Devices and look for a device with an exclamation or question mark bext to it. I have experienced this before and usually it is due to a hardware conflict of some type. You can also turn on Dr. Watson in Accessories, System, System Info and it will generate log files whenever there is a crash.

by red dragoon

I was fixing someone's computer. It was a Win 98 machine with 64 MB of RAM.

I had installed a USB card and 33.6 modem. When I powered it on, it would go through the POST and staring Win 98 screen and then return to the POST.

I removed and reseated the cards and also reseated the memory. I also reconnected the IDE cables.

Whatever was the problem, that fixed it.

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