re: Can not boot up in standard mode
Saturday, January 10, 2009 at 1:52 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(3923 messages posted)
rob wrote:
|I shut down the computer
|and inserted the Start up floppy disc that came with the computer.
|I then restarted it and the Dell screen appeared,
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A BIOS graphic.
|1 beep,
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POST was successful.
|black screen with cursor in the upper left hand corner,
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DOS loaded sucessfully.
|windows 98 screen,
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Those stupid M$ advertisements mask useful information.
I haven't seen any of them in years. e.g.
cache of
http://www.computertips.com/Windows/Windows98/Appearance/19970721006.htm
|then it went to the Microsoft windows 98 start up menu.
|[...]I selected command prompt and at the C prompt
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It appears you didn't follow directions
to reset your Boot Precedence in CMOS Setup.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1230501936
Look for the text /CMOS.
More here:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1105063208
|I typed A: then enter.
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You shouldn't have had to do this--if A: was specified *first* in Boot Precedence
and the diskette is not defective (i.e. bootable in another box).
|I received "general failure reading drive A"
|Abort, Retry,Fail
|I typed in A and recieved "the current drive is no longer available."
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Sounds like the device is disconnected (been poking around inside your box??)
or is defective.
Can the drive read diskettes under Windoze?
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