I have a computer, and I just replaced the motherboard. I was gonna wipe out my hard drive and reinstall Win98, but ran into a problem. When I try to boot from a floppy, it was successful once - I erased and created a new parition (FAT32). I restarted and booted from the floppy, and received a message - "Insert Disk with Batch file" - I tried 2 other Win98 boot disks, and was greeted with the same error. I tried to boot from my Win98 CD (this is after the parition was created), and selected the option to begin Win98 installation. Once the CD stopped spinning, and just sat at a DOS screen, and the other time it put machine language (i.e. crazy symbols) on the screen. What's happening here? I haven't seen this before, has anyone else? I expected it to start formatting the hard disk.

As you have just replaced the motherboard, this is probably the first place to look. Check the CPU cooling and installation. Also make sure the ram is fully seated.

Verify any motherboard jumper settings are correct. Is the cpu overclocked? The 'insert disk with batch file' is a message generated by processes that shouldn't involve the bootdisk--NAV recovery disks, Gateway restore disks, etc. Where are you getting the bootdisks you're using? Do an fdisk/mbr to refresh the master boot record of the hard drive. And make sure any virus protection is turned off in cmos/bios setup.