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Recent content by argeey
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Windows98 Starts then Blacks Out
Found it!!! was looking at the motherboard to see if there were any jumpers to switch off the on board graphics and came across a black capacitor. It's burnt out. I assume it's in the graphics area and that's why it fails in normal mode and is disabled in safe mode. No jumpers available and no...- argeey
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Windows98 Starts then Blacks Out
Fdisked the hard drive and reformatted. Carried out a clean install. Removed modem card so nothing in PCI slots.Put in an AGP graphics card.Changed the memory simm card and carried out a fresh install from a different Win98se disk. Problem persists but still ok in safe mode. Now I'm completely...- argeey
- Post #7
- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Windows98 Starts then Blacks Out
Thanks for that it was useful but unfortunately hasn't worked. Like you, I reckon it's drivers but it's not my PC so I don't have its recent history to hand. Tried oldest restore but it failed. Disabled everything that could be disabled in Device Manager but it still froze. Swapped the memory...- argeey
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
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Windows98 Starts then Blacks Out
Got a PC with Windows 98 SE OS. It starts up, loads a couple of progs into the Sys Tray The mouse pointer goes to egg timer and then the screen blacks out and everything locks up. Only solution is to switch off. PC runs ok in safe mode. I've tried clearing MSconfig files and disabling Win.ini...- argeey
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- Forum: Microsoft: Windows
