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Win95 disk crash and booting problem

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by bruce

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I have a 6 yr old PC running Win95. It's a Pentium 100 with 32 MB RAM. It suddenly stopped loading. The Boot process goes thru the inital text display, checks the A:\ drive then goes to the C:\ drive and hangs. If I use a win95 or win98 (with CD support) floppy boot disk the PC reads the A:\ disk, displays a message Loading Win95 or 98 then hangs.

I have put in other HDDrives under the 8GB limit I am told is the max it can take. No difference. I can't load any floppy boot disk - it always hangs?

Could it be the BIOS battery, a motherboard fault or the hard drive?

HELP please

Thanks
Bruce

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by dmiles

Any of the following conditions can cause Windows 95 not to start in Safe mode:

- Your computer is infected with a virus. For additional information about computer viruses, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q129972
TITLE : Description of Computer Viruses

- Your computer's CMOS settings are not correct. Check your computer's CMOS settings to make sure they are correct. (You may need to contact the computer manufacturer to verify these settings.)

- There is a hardware conflict. These conflicts can include, but are not limited to, PCI BIOS settings, IRQ conflicts, redundant COM ports (for example, two COM1 ports, or an internal modem set to the same COM port as an existing serial port), and defective RAM chips.

- A setting in the Msdos.sys file needs to be changed (for example, the Logo setting should be set to zero). For additional information on the Msdos.sys file, please see the following article(s) in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q118579
TITLE : Contents of the Windows 95 Msdos.sys File

- You need to use the Vga.drv or Vga.vxd video drivers from the Windows 95 CD-ROM. These files are located in the Drivers\Display\Vga folder. For example, these drivers may be helpful if you have an Intel Triton PCI controller or a Cirrus Logic 5401 or 5402 VGA video adapter. For more information about these files, please see the Readme.txt file in the same folder.

- You are using Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2) and your computer stops responding (hangs) after booting to a previous operating system. For information about this issue, see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

ARTICLE-ID: Q155364
TITLE : OSR2 Hangs After Booting Previous Operating System

by jorich

When using the floppy drive as your boot drive, most of the time computer will stop booting only if:

1. There's a problem with your start-up Floppy disk.
2. There's a probelm with your floppy drive.
3. Defective controlers.

I suggest you try the following:

1. Try cleanning the Floppy drive first. then use a win 95 or 98 start-up disk that you have tried in another computer. there's a possibility that the start-up disk that you have used is also damaged.

2. If you using an ISA Drive controller, try cleaning the drive controller contacts with an eraser.

3. If what you have is a built-in Drive controller. Ther's a great posibility that you have a defective motherboard.

Regards,

Jov

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