Windows 98 install prob

[CRS]

Now that I got windows installed everytime i turn on my comp and the windows screen is loading windows it freezes and i cant use ctrl alt del to restart it it doesnt do anything.
i tried reloading windows and that doesnt work but it will run in safe mode
so if someone could please help me figure out what i have to fix that would be great

ThX

[edge345]

Try to remove the pci cards just leaving in the video card and try to boot, Ithink you may have a hardware conflict. alos make sure the cpu fan is working.

edge345

[fatboyjim]

Freezes? On the splash screen?

If you don't know for sure it's actually frozen, it could be doing something, I would advise leaving it for at least 5 minutes

Jim

[Dan]

there is a moving blue varigated "stripe" on the bottom of the splash screen. If the stripe keeps moving, windows is continuing to load.
If it freezes for more than 5 minutes, something is up. This happened to me after a new build once, but only because I had 768mb of ram and didn't realise win98 wouldn't accept it wwithout some tweaking...

[fatboyjim]

But even if the blue stripe stops for a little while it still could be loading

That's why we suggest about 5 minutes


Try pulling out your network card if you have one, this can be a cause for windows failing to load quickly after first boot (it uses Windows' drivers and tries for about 5 mins to look for a DHCP server even if you don't have one)

If that doesn't work, as somebody already said, pull out all cards other than Graphics (if that doesn't work, pull them all out other than video then re-install windows)

Then you can put the cards back in one by one until it's all working

Jim