Computer: 133 Mhz AMD, OS: Windows 95 RAM: 64MB

Received checksum error-c-mos battery failure . . . shut off system . . . replaced battery (did not save settings) . . . booted and entered c-mos settings and set time and date . . . when trying to load W95 it would stall on blinking curser just before icons came up . . . After entering safe mode and changing virtual memory settings to automatic (formerly I was using old hard drive D), I can now boot all the way through the appearance of icons on desktop but then the computer hangs . . . I thought it was Virus Scan & other start up programs so I uninstalled them but now still have the same problem. What could be the reason and how can I fix it? P.S. I tried to read the config sys file in safe mode using notepad and it shows nothing there.

The settings for the drives may not be correct...enter the BIOS setup and if you have the option for the drives to be set to auto then use it, if not you will probably have to open the case and get the geometry data off the label on the drive.

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Thanks mjc for the help. The main drive is already set to auto in my bios. The slave drive is not. That is the way my bios was set before the alleged battery failure. I assume the system worked that way before this most recent battery change because of the ez-bios set up that came with my newest drive (now drive c). Anyway, I'll try changing the set up on the slave drive if you think it will help. In the mean time if you have any other ideas I'd appreciate knowing them even before I try the above because I have access to the computer I'm using now only for the next couple days and won't have access to my own until afterwards. Thanks again for the help.

Are you using your serial ports for anything, if not try disabling them in the bios. You might have a resource conflict.

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Sledgehammer will save the day!

Also get to a dos prompt, by hitting f8 on startup, then type in at the c:/
scanreg/restore Then pick a date when it booted correctly and see if that does the trick.

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Sledgehammer will save the day!

Diurnal,

Thanks for jumping in to make some suggestions for me. I'm not sure if the serial ports are disabled or not, so I will check and try that as a second option.

Concerning restoring the registry if needed, I'd like to ask you a couple questions. 1) Will the fact that I messed with the virtual memory settings cause me problems if I restore a registry that was used when I had the settings set to use my old hard drive (D)? 2) Will restoring the registry cause other problems since I deleted 3 start up programs in safe mode already in order to try and fix the current start up problem? It was hanging right after my virus scan splash screen came up and I couldn't find a way to disable it, so I deleted that program (and it's associations in the local user and local machine part of the registry) as well as Logtime (an internet timing program) and "perfect print" (a part of the printing options in Wordperfect).

Thank you very much for the help. When I get back to my computer I will try the things mentioned here and give a report. Thanks again.

It should put your computer to the same form you left it at the day you restore it. youll probably lose data that you put on your computer after the days of the restoration date. Although this could be a temporary solution to the problem. At least it should get you up and running for a while.

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To those of you who helped me get to the bottom of matters I want to say thank you. Though no one could tell my exact problem having not been here, your suggestions led to the solution. I did not have to restore my registry! I was able to change settings in the bios that made the difference. I'm not sure which setting actully fixed the problem. It was either the need to enable the secondary drive in my bios or most likely a conflict between the IRQ settings of my sound card and printer port. I was able to resolve it by temporarily disabling my printer and enabling the secondary drive. I also disable serial port 2 in the process. The computer first booted showing my sound card to be using IRQ 5 and 7. After reenabling the printer only IRQ 7 was usded and the printer took the other. All looks fine! Thanks again.