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Old Win98 Not Booting Properly
Name: Junsui Date: January 15, 2006 at 16:50:58 Pacific OS: Windows XP Home Edition CPU/Ram: P4 1.6 GB
Comment:
My friend's Windows 98 computer will not get past the loading part. It automatically goes to the Safe Mode screen. When we try to start in ANY mode, It'll go to the Windows loading screen, and then shut off. It flashes a screen for a VERY brief moment that says something like 'gx(With some numbers).exe cannot be loaded.' It says something about a sound card, too, while I'm starting with Command Prompt. Is it a hardware problem, or could it be a virus?
Obviously it would help if you could be not quite so vague
If a virus is suspected, try scanning for such
Otherwise, take a look at the startups with msconfig and disable anything that doesn't belong. Running Ad-aware & Spybot is advisable also to check for other kinds of malware
Hardware problems may be reflected in Device Manager - check the soundcard's entry there
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Response Number 2
Name: max00 Date: January 15, 2006 at 18:59:25 Pacific
Reply:
You should be posting the specs for the problem machine, not the machine that you are posting with.
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Response Number 3
Name: jboy Date: January 15, 2006 at 19:05:18 Pacific
Reply:
... ideally - but I'd settle for the actual error messages (rather than 'something like')
I agree; Computing.Net participants need to proofread
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