[Ham-Computers] Help with Win 98

[Brian K. Gaskamp]

I have no boot disk.
Just a puter that keeps locking up and the dial up screen keeps popping up
and then everything freezes.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfischer at usol.com>
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications, or
experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2005 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Help with Win 98


> Brian,
>
> Hold up! Now what did you install, or try to uninstall, just before this
> happened? An Adobe nightmare product? The answer may lie in the "win.ini"
or
> "system.ini" files. However, stay out of them for right now, sir.
>
> Some programs make system changes without asking you first and often it
involves
> altering the display, sometimes changing a driver etc.
>
> Do you have a boot disk Brian? Tell me what you do have, sir? Off list,
please
> to save bandwidth. The final analysis will be put on the list, however.
>
> DBF
>
>
> ----------
> From: jeff <jeffv at op.net>
> To: Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications,  or
> experimenting <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Help with Win 98
> Date: Saturday, August 27, 2005 9:22 PM
>
> On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 14:23 -0500, Brian K. Gaskamp wrote:
> > I have a problem here with a computer.
> > The computer with Win 98 boots up then when the desktop appears so does
the
> > dial up screen and then it freezes up.
>
> Most impressive.
>
> You can try safe mode.  I'm trying to remember - I think you hit F5 or
> F8 while booting and it will give you a choice.  From there you can
> troubleshoot a bit.  This mode doesn't start all sorts of nonsense with
> Windows, so it can help you narrow down the culprit.
>
> If it is attempting to dial then freezes up, you can try removing the
> modem and rebooting.  If it boots, you might have a modem issue.
>
> Does the dialup window always come up on startup?  If not, you may have
> a virus in there that desperately wants to phone home.
>
> You can also check through your INI files in the Win/Windows/Win98
> directory.  It's been a while since I've been in there, but one of them
> (win.ini, system.ini, etc) will have startup info in it.  If you see
> something that doesn't belong, comment out or delete the entire line
> (write it down) and try restarting til you nail the bugger.
>
> If you want to go really nuts, you can boot to a DOS or 98 floppy and do
> some virus scanning.
>
>
>
> Good luck.
>
> jeff
> Chief Infection Officer
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ham-Computers mailing list
> Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ham-computers
> _______________________________________________
> Ham-Computers mailing list
> Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net
> http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/ham-computers
>