bass_freak Posted December 6, 2001 Posted December 6, 2001 I have just installed windows 98 on a customers computer, the computer starts up, but goes directly to "it is now safe to turn off your computer". What would cause this to happen? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Espn83 Posted December 6, 2001 Posted December 6, 2001 It could be that the installation got corupt. Maybe you should fdisk, format, and reinstall. Hopefully that should fix the problem. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass_freak Posted December 6, 2001 Posted December 6, 2001 That is what i am trying, the hard drive seems to have bad sectors on it now tho Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass_freak Posted December 6, 2001 Posted December 6, 2001 Thier are no bad sectors on the hard drive, but format took an overly long amount of time, it is not a very large hard drive, and scandisk found zero bad sectors on the drive, still have the start-up problem also. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FreakyDrOverclock Posted December 7, 2001 Posted December 7, 2001 run norton disk-checker...its better than scandisk... are your hd-settigs correct? (bios<-->hd)? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass_freak Posted December 8, 2001 Posted December 8, 2001 i fdisked it, and yes the bios corectly recognized the harddrive, will try the norton thing next, then it will have to be a low leval format i guess Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
snup Posted December 9, 2001 Posted December 9, 2001 Bass_freak i think that if you check if ACPI is enabled .this problem should be solved. (If you enable or disable ACPI u have to setup one more time win98 to let your change take place ;-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bass_freak Posted December 9, 2001 Posted December 9, 2001 After 12 Re-Installs it boots up fine, I didn't change anything, just keep on fdisk, format, install over and over. Now it can't see any NIC cards, have tired standered 3COM, intel, Leadtech, D-Link, Easy 2000 and a few others. It sees them but will not say that thier is a compatable driver for it. I have a machine with same specs with a Dlink 530-T in it, and it came right up, what is so difrent, i set all bios seting to defalt, reset the cmos, what else is thier to do? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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