Can anyone suggest fix for Win 98 not loading. Most times it freezes at the Win 98 screen. Sometimes it asks which mode is required and suggests Safe Mode. I have gone in under safe mode and run diskclean, scan disk and disk defrag but to no avail. This has happened immediately after a housemove during which the computer was handled very carefully.
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Have you scanned for viruses with an up-to-date anti-virus sofware? Since you moved the computer you might open it up and make sure everything is seated good and make sure your fans are working. "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing....." ![[morning]](/data/assets/smilies/morning.gif "[morning] [morning]")
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Try going into safemode, then bring up msconfig by going to start>run type in msconfig and hit ok
uncheck process autoexec.bat and config.sys and reboot. IF it will now go into windows, then something in one of the 2 files is causing the problem.![[cheers]](/data/assets/smilies/cheers.gif "[cheers] [cheers]")
uncheck process autoexec.bat and config.sys and reboot. IF it will now go into windows, then something in one of the 2 files is causing the problem.
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