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budgetgardener
08-10-2005, 01:56 PM
hello there
computer wont boot up, i have windows 98, i have the boot disc, nothing happens
PrntRhd
08-10-2005, 02:09 PM
Do any lights come on,
Do you get a POST beep?
Do any lights come on?
Do you get any messages on the monitor?
budgetgardener
08-10-2005, 03:14 PM
it boots up and goes to windows 98 startup menu but than it goes into safe mode, and than a message comes up
a fatal exception OD has occured at 16CF:000014E3
Sylvander
08-10-2005, 04:03 PM
See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;299976

If you find the procedure suggested to be too complex you might find it simpler just to run Windows "Setup.exe" to run a "repair" re-install of Windows.
budgetgardener
08-17-2005, 12:10 PM
hello all
i tried putting in the cd for 98 and it wouldnt read it, what next
Sylvander
08-17-2005, 05:45 PM
2 possible options:
1. Boot to a Startup floppy ["with CD-ROM support"] and use DOS commands to see if the contents of the CD can be seen/read. If you want to run "Setup.exe", use DOS commands to do it.
Remember that the "RAMdrive" uses a letter after those given to the HDD partitions/"drives", and will set back the CD-drives.
2. Go into the BIOS Setup and set the boot sequence so that the CD-drive is 1st in the list. If the Win98 CD is bootable, it will boot [if it isn't it won't].

Remember that there's more than one way to deal with a problem and it all depends on your own ideas, attitudes, preferences.
You're not giving much in the way of info, so we're working in a bit of an information vacuum.

1. Do you have any backups of the C: partition?
2. Have you tried to restore a good configuration using c:\>[B]scanreg /restore? [Worth a try in case it's a configuration problem.]
3. How important to you is the stuff on your HDD? How unhappy would you be at losing it?