re: Can not boot up in standard mode -- black screen, blinking cursor
Tuesday, December 30, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3923 messages posted)
rob wrote:
|||I replaced the battery[...]
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gewg_ wrote:
||No more blinking cursor. Right?
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rob wrote:
|[...]the black screen with the blinking cursor comes back.
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Hmmm. You're sayng you see *just* the underscore character
--and **not** a DOS prompt. Right?
|Safe mode and DOS are ok.
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Another difference with Safe Mode
is that a bunch of crap apps don't run at Startup.
It sounds like a DOS app is trying to run in fullscreen mode.
If you can see a difference when you hit Alt+Enter or Alt+Tab , then I'm right.
...also notice in my post that the gold standard for blockquoting of previous posts
includes one hash mark for *each* layer of previous-ness.
Even better: REMOVE anything that isn't **needed** to frame your new text.
||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.
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|Is there a way to change the kernel,
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If you have to ask the question, you can't do it.
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:operating+system+kernel
...and with closed-source software, it ain't possible anyway.
http://www.google.com/search?q=define:open+source+software
(see also "thwart", below.)
If you want to be able to mess with the guts of your OS,
to start, I suggest a course in a computer programming language (C, C++)
and a change to a 21st-Century operating system like Linux
(which doesn't purposely thwart your efforts by keeping everything secret).
...and you completely missed what I was saying
about external device drivers-vs-Safe Mode.
||[...]looking in Device Manager for yellow marks |is a good idea.
||Remove any damaged item before replacing it.
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|No yellow markes in device manager
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OK.
||Part of Windoze could also be broken; System File |Checker can help there.
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Re: Your blockquoting of previous posts and previewing your own typing:
I'm going to suggest again that you read the first 2 paragraphs here:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1217046552
|I did the SFC and it says that the setupx.dll file "may be corrupt."
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http://www.google.com/search?q=Corrupted-Setupx.dll-After-Installing-Windows-98
People familiar with Windoze
recognize that M$ OSes need re-installing now and then.
(Keith has already suggested this.)
Using a Registry Cleaner periodically *can* postpone that.
(This is a potentially dangerous procedure;
see also "backup of your Registry", below)
If you don't have your data backed up to external media,
now would be a good time to do that.
What follows is for AFTER you get Windoze working right:
Backing up your device drivers from your properly-working install of Windoze
is also a good idea.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070106035713
/http://www.safe-install.com/programs/windriversbackup-personal-edition.html
An occasional backup of your Registry--again to EXTERNAL media--
can also save Windoze users grief.
(These are the RB*.CAB files mentioned elsewhere in the thread.)
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