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12-26-2003, 11:50 AM
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Win ME Problem
I'm doing some work on a friends HP 2950 Pavilion PC and I'm having problems. I was going to add some memory and a PCI video card (no AGP port) but cannot get pst the updating hardware changes screen on Windows ME. It freezes at 0% and wont respond. I can shut down the application thru Ctrl. Alt. Del. but it wont follow thru the boot sequence and load windows. I've taken out the mem. and vid card and tried it with same results. I can get to the desktop in Safe mode. Here's what I want to do. I'm going to reformat the HD, but I need to save about 125mb of pictures that are currently on the HD before I do this. In safe mode the drivers for the CD-RW are not present. I can transfer them to floppy (it would only take about 100 disks to do it!) I know there has to be an easier way, can anyone help me out?
Specs. Intel P3 1ghz cpu Tasus MB Maxtor 40g HD 128mb pc100 ram Integrated 11mb video Win ME |
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12-26-2003, 02:02 PM
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boot to a command prompt ie c:\ and type scanreg /restor and try replacing the regerstry with a good one see this link
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winme
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12-26-2003, 03:49 PM
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If restoring the registry doesn't help...slave the hard drive to another computer and save the pictures, then put it back in and format if that's what you're wanting to do.
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12-26-2003, 06:33 PM
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can you get to the bios screen? You could try to reset the cmos to default and see if you could boot. Also unplugging the box and removing the cmos battery for 5 mins. (have heard 20, too) will also clear it. If it will boot you can always change your bios settings back. The reeason being that safe mode uses a default video driver and booting normally uses whatever you have your vid set to. A messed up vid. card install, who knows what it is trying to use?
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12-26-2003, 06:56 PM
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Thanks to all. You guys have never failed me. What I ended up doing was installing the HD as a slave on another PC, transfering all the files I needed then reinstalling it back in the HP. I reformatted It and it seems to be doin' good. I was tempted to install 98 instead of ME, it seems to be a more stable OS. The video card install was sucessfull. Who knows what the problem was orginally. Maybe the HP monster doesn't like non-HP certifed goof-offs like myself messin' with their computers, lol.
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12-27-2003, 12:58 AM
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Good to hear it's working out for ya, good luck with it.
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