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09-13-2002, 07:00 PM
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Location: Shakopee MN
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Win 98 Bootss to the F8 Dos Menu -Power Outages
My managers home PC only boots to the same screen you get if you F8 during boot up, if you select normal boot at this point it finishes fine. I am trying to avoid the drive to look at it.
Known issue: He lives in Malden Mass. which has had 8-12 roaving power outages a day for a period of a month so he has been hit a few times for sure. I had him get an APC UPS with software to shut the machine down to avoid this problem in the future. If it boots fine after selecting normal (it has been a while since I was on 98 so the terms might be wrong) is there a way to skip this dos screen and have him do straight into windows? or is a reinstall the best option due to the possible weirdness from the power outages? Thank you in advance His machine is a local store build and is roughly a: P!!! machine about 1 Ghz 512 MB pc133 ram ATI 32 mb video card DVD CD burner WIn 98 SE |
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09-13-2002, 07:04 PM
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Shiro Usagi
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Join Date: Sep 1999
Location: Kaneohe, Hawaii
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Hi sdkfz,
Have him check in msconfig> advanced tab to see if the option to start at the boot menu is checked. If it is, have him uncheck it.  Cricket
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09-15-2002, 04:36 PM
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Cricket,
To quote my manager's e mail in response to your forwarded answer "IT WORKED!!! Thank you." Thank you |
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