PC Freezing at Bootup

[FZWG]

Appreciate your assistance.

PC boots up to:

PCI Device Listing... (normal listing)
Verifying DMI Pool Data-Update Success
C:\>
C:\>
C:\>

After the three instances of the C:\> prompt, that is as far as it goes. The cursor is at the top left of the screen, not by any of the C:\> prompts.

Any ideas as to how to get out of this?

[edrod13]

When it bbots up hold the CTRL key and you should get a screen with many options. I think it's normal, safe mode, selective startup, etc.. Try selective or safe mode and see if you can make the thing boot.

Edrod13

[FZWG]

Thanks for the reply.

Tried Safe Mode, but went right back to the same place after the W98 logo came on.

[edrod13]

If I were in your shoes then I would probably try a scanreg /restore. Do the same CTRL thing and choose command prompt. At the prompt type in Scanreg /restore and choose a good known working registry before you had any problems. As I said, this is what I would do but see what others suggest. HTH

Edrod13

[Cricket]

Hi FZWG,

Did this just start yesterday? April 26 is the day the CIH virus hits. See this thread (http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33069) and check out the links.

:) Cricket

[FZWG]

Final outcome:

Had to Fdisk and Format HDD, and then install W98SE from scratch.

Nothing else worked.