[Ham-Computers] Info on Win 98

[Brian K. Gaskamp]

Update...

He gave me a box of stuff he had with this computer and it has both a Win 98 
floppy and a Win 98 CD.
Yes it checks it when booting.

The owner also told me, that before everything went haywire on this computer 
it had Win XP on it also.

I guess there are diff version to bios, cause a while back I figured out on 
another system I had here that you could go into bios and change the boot 
sequence, but on this system I have now you can't.

Does anybody know anything about that?


73
Brian
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Hill" <JJan-3 at cox.net>
To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications,or 
experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] Info on Win 98


> Does your friend still have his Win 95 install CD?  If so, maybe you
> could make a boot floppy on another computer, boot from the floppy,
> go to the CD drive...... I'm assuming the computer still checks the
> floppy when booting.
> Jim
>
>
>
> At 07:38 PM 6/2/2009, you wrote:
>>I'm trying to help a friend out that messed up there desktop computer big
>>time.
>>If you go into bios onto the system there a are options for booting the
>>system up.
>>CD-ROM
>>HD
>>Floppy Drive
>>
>>But they are not where you can choose how to boot the system up.
>>
>>I'm also getting a message saying, "Invalid system disk"
>>
>>I was reading about that message and looks like the system might have a
>>virus and my freind said he used to have Win XP on the laptop.
>>
>>Any suggestions on what to do to get the system started again, if its even
>>possible.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Brian
>>
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