Constantly rebooting on startup in 98

[gary25]

When starting up my PC, it gets to 'starting Win 98', but then reboots back to start the boot cycle again. This keeps happening and the computer gets stuck in this loop.
I have also noticed that the Floppy drive is not being searched for and I have had to change that in BIOS menu.

Is this software or hardware!

Thanks,
Gary

[merlin]

a wav file may be can cause this re-boot into safe mode f8 and in the runbox type msconfig and chose selective startup and also while in safe mode have a look at the device manager>are there any error codes or yellow tri-angles near the floppy disks /controllers icon?

[Gloops]

Hello,

Microsoft has published an add-on to solve this problem. As I do not use Windows 98 any more I am afraid I do not have the address by hand, but I presume a search on Microsoft's site should give some results.

I had the information on microsoft.public.fr.windows98 about two years ago, I imagine the question must have been asked also in an English speaking newsgroup on news.microsoft.com.

It can happen once that if you have something really ill-installed this happens again, but generally speaking this add-on brings a real improvement.

Hoping this helps ...

[tinmanjohnny]

Try this:http://support.microsoft.com/search/default.aspx?InCC_hdn=true&Catalog=LCID%3D1033%26CDID%3DEN-US-KB%26PRODLISTSRC%3DON&withinResults=&QuerySource=gASr_Query&Product=w98&Queryc=rebooting&Query=rebooting&KeywordType=ALL&maxResults=25&Titles=false&numDays=&InCC=on
Web support at Microsoft. Look under if usung more that 1.5GB of RAM or if using DriveSpace compression.