W98SE fails to boot completely

[JerryinHouston]

I recently had to replace the MB in my AT system (Celeron 300A, 98mg ram, 16g HD). Being hard to find, I had to take what the local dealer had, a Jetway 720bf. After installation and a bit 'o tweekin it was working OK but I was having trouble getting it to recognize my ADS USB card andit did not sense the primary IDE cable (it did know the HD's were there). I found that it was using an old BIOS (FO3) and the current one available was FO9. I flashed the BIOS and it seemed to solve the IDE problem and the USB problem...BUT.... now it would not finish the boot sequence. It will boot nicely in Safe Mode and there is no obvious problem in the new BIOS. The windows screen will come up as normal and the rolling blue bar will roll right along, and the HD works, and then it stalls..... Ctl-Alt-Del tells me that VxD VMM (01) is waiting on a call to VxD Ks (05) and it just seems to want to sit and wait. I have tried to use the boot with step verification but have not found that not entering any one of the changes the outcome. The last entry is one called SiSSMART and may be related to the SiS chip. Any help and advice on this is greatly appreciated.

Jerryin Houston

 

[Comtech]

Did you try loading step by step, and choosing NO to the Sismart one?
Have you loaded any updated drivers for the motherboard from the CD (not the BIOS update obviously), but bussmaster drivers, or PCI device drivers, ACPI drivers...?
Generally, I think your old motherboard had different IRQ/memory settings for your devices than the new one, thus windows settings are all screwed up.
Try getting to safe mode, remove all devices from device manager, and restart to reinstall them.
Another method to try, is to remove all devices from the computer except video, and at least get to safe mode, then remove all devices, restart to reinstall.
If you can't get to safe mode, let us know, and we'll walk through a DOS session to clean out device manager. Cheers,
Jim
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[JerryinHouston]

Jim, you were spot on. After eading some other threads it seemed that this was related to the USB drivers. I went back into the control panel and deleted the USB drivers and then rebooted the system...WOW it wanted to reinstall everything and just about did and now it boots quicker than it did before. It has reinstalled the SIS 7100 USB host controller but I cannot get it to recognize my ADS USB PCI card. Oh well, a bit at a time. Thanks again....

Jerry in Houston