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by jon_siegel

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Ok, I had my tbird 900 with 512 megs pc133, ati radeon 64meg, SB Live, SiS900 fast ethernet2 card, asus a7v MB, and a new 40 Gig IBM HDD running fine last friday when I left for dinner. Everything was fine. I run Win98se on all of this, with the latest drivers for everything. Dinner went great, so I came home to relax even more by playing some CS, and turned on my machine, and AAAAAAAAAAA!!! 16 colors, no drivers, not even MB drivers. So I calmly go to reinstall everything, and I get a registryerror when trying to do the MB drivers first. Then I notice that there is no cd or dvd drive detected, and so I reformatted 5 times, to clear anything there, and reinstalled windows. Same deal, reg error. Even after 30 reformats, same farking error.HEEEEELP!!! What is wrong? point total on this one reflects my panic, and my desire to get back to CS. BTW, I am not a newbie, just never encountered something like this before.

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by integratedcomputersource

That is a bad situation....A few things to check: 1) are you doing an unconditional format when you're reformatting,(format c:/s/u) and are you repartitioning also when you reformat...try these first.

by integratedcomputersource

That is a bad situation....A few things to check: 1) are you doing an unconditional format when you're reformatting,(format c:/s/u) and are you repartitioning also when you reformat...try these first.
2)I might be concerned that there was an issue with the file allocation table. Try setting up two primary partitions with the first being 2 gigs, and leave this blank then set up your OS on the 2nd partition you make...make sure they're both set up as primary partition.
3)Load default setting into your bios
4)Finally, if all else fails I'd try changing the CMOS on the off chance a weak battery could be causing the lapse (I've seen stranger things). Anyway, good luck to you.

by mtnsqs

Sounds to me like you might have a faulty motherboard - can you try moving the disks to another machine???

by mm212

Your bios could be the problem. We've recently started getting a new model of workstation at work and had a consistant registry problem with 98SE. We updated the BIOS and haven't had a problem since. So, upgrade you bios, delete all partitions, format /u, and try again.

by jon_siegel

your comments led me to the problem. Even though you did not solve it, you gave me an idea that led me tinkering away until I solved it. For future reference, the problem was the last time I flashed my bios, asus' bios utility was faulty, and did not flash it 100%, so I ended up with an insane machine that refused to accept anything. Asus updated their bios utility for me, and boom, flash away, problem solved.
Thanks for all of your help, everyone.

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