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windows 98 hangs when booting up

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by kareem

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My system hangs on the logo screen whenever I boot my system up. I can boot in safe mode then reboot in normal mode and it will start (90%) of the time. I have updated my 3dfx voodoo3 drivers and still nothing. Could I have a currupted logo file? Also, any cd that I put in my cdrom it shows up as an audio cd. This only start happening when I loaded on the adaptec easy cd creator software (I have a CDWR also). I have since uninstalled the software and reinstalled the cdrom driver....yet nothing!

Any help on any of these situations would be appreciated.

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by zlitocook

The second question first. I had the same problem with the CDRW I installed on my on computer last year, I conntacted the company and the said that a CDRW can not use the same cable as the old one I need to use the cable supplied with the CDRW. Thisdid solve the problem. As to the first question I have many answers from Micro soft to try, please email me at zlito@aol.com because there are too many to put in this question. Thanks

by kareem

I would have tried that but both of my cdroms were working up to this point!

by butlerchuck

the frst thing I would do is clean the temp files. then go to support.microsoft.com where you can type in the error and get sevral answers to this. there are about 80 of them the last time i checked.
As for #2 I would agree with the first guy.

by kareem

I cleaned up all temp folders, ran diskeeper for 98 overnight to defrag my drives yet I still have this problem. I tried looking for the solution on MS site but I don't get anything close to what I am experiencing!

by kgosnell

Remove the startup sound, and while you are at it remove the shutdown sound, this may or may not be the problem , but Windows on all versions since 95 that uses this sound scheme has a rare bug , it loses the drivers for the sound card, and no , there is nothing wrong if it does , once the sounds are removed , it will be happy. If the sound is the issue , it hangs just before the final screen ( it will do the same thing if there is a Video issue , but yours acts like soundcard drivers are being lost )

by kgosnell

One last thought , go to the Adaptec site and see if there is an updated driver , or bug fix for the issue there, however , take things one at a time as each can be part of the problem, so the primary one has to be resolved for the issue to go away.While you are at it go to your soundcard makers site and update that too , as it likely will need it , lastly the Video card makers site to make it a clean sweap , BUT don't forget to do a Deep Scan for a Virus/Worm , as they can mimic many problems. Kyle

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