re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 12:09 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by rob (25 messages posted) gewg_ (3610 messages posted) |I replaced the battery[...] | rob | No more blinking cursor. Right? If I try to open in standard mode after the windows 98 screen appears, it still goes to the black screen with the blinking cursor in thwe upper right of the screen. |The system will only boot in safe and dos and the scanreg /fix still freezes up | Uh huh. |and systenm.dat. | I'm not sure what you mean by that. If I run scanreg /fix in dos then scan feature freezes up whils scanning the system.dat files at about 1% As a start, it would be good if you previewed your composition before posting it. The first 2 paragraphs here are worth reading: http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1217046552 The difference between Normal Mode And Safe Mode is that normally Windoze uses device drivers to get more than the basic functions enabled in the Windoze kernel. I'm not sure what the kernel is. Should I make changes to this so I can access other devices while in safe mode? As such, looking in Device Manager for yellow marks is a good idea. Remove any damaged item before replacing it. Nothing with a yellow mark in device manager You have scanned for infections. Right? All the time. Found nothing. Part of Windoze could also be broken; System File Checker can help there. Caveat: SFC is a *very* blunt tool: cache of http://www.rickrogers.org/sfc.htm I'll check sfc and get back to you with the results. Thanks Written in response to: re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (gewg_: Monday, December 29, 2008 at 5:41 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 2:05 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (gewg_: Sun, Dec 28, 2008, 3:20 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (rob: Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 3:19 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (gewg_: Mon, Dec 29, 2008, 5:41 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 12:09 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 1:57 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (gewg_: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 4:11 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor (rob: Fri, Jan 9, 2009, 12:30 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (Keith Stanier: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 5:10 am) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 12:20 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 12:23 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 12:31 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (Keith Stanier: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 12:54 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 1:51 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Tue, Dec 30, 2008, 1:33 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (Keith Stanier: Wed, Dec 31, 2008, 4:05 am) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Fri, Jan 9, 2009, 12:33 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Fri, Jan 9, 2009, 2:07 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (Keith Stanier: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 2:06 am) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (gewg_: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 12:08 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 1:52 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (gewg_: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 3:22 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 1:33 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (gewg_: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 1:52 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (Keith Stanier: Sat, Jan 10, 2009, 1:58 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Sun, Jan 4, 2009, 3:36 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Fri, Jan 9, 2009, 3:32 pm) re: Can not boot up in standard mode (rob: Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 11:03 am) Got Windoze re-installed (sorta); driver problems now (gewg_: Sun, Jan 11, 2009, 1:39 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum