Win98SE boot problem

Hello all

Having a problem with windows freezing on startup. I believe it almost gets

to the

desktop before it stops. I can get into safe mode. Here's what I've tried so

far;



Virus scan

spyware scan

turn off graphic card hardware acceleration

in msconfig I unchecked all startup items

booted without win.ini

rebooted without system.ini

boot with step by step confirmation- all goes well until "load all windows

drivers" must be one of these drivers

but why would a windows reload not fix??

from a dos prompt run scanreg-no errors

restore an earlier registry

from a dos prompt run scandisk

made sure there is no sound file upon windows startup



Reload windows, this works for a short period of time...odd, after

loading windows I need to install USB drivers, while loading these

drivers the system needs to reboot, and does so successfully. But

after this if rebooted I'm back to square one



System

AMD 950mhz

256 RAM

Gforce 2MX graphics card

VIA KT400 chipset

MB MSI KT4V



Thanks for any input!

"AMW" <REMOVEamwi@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:



>Hello all

>Having a problem with windows freezing on startup. I believe it almost gets

>to the

>desktop before it stops. I can get into safe mode. Here's what I've tried so

>far;

>



Turn on the computer and bring up the Startup Menu, as you do for Safe

Mode.



Instead of choosing Safe Mode select the "Logged - bootlog.txt"

option.



When it freezes restart the computer and this time boot into Safe

Mode.



There should now be two hidden files in the root directory (C:\) named

bootlog.txt and bootlog.prv



Bootlog.txt will be the file from your successful startup in Safe

Mode.



Bootlog.prv will be from your previous failed attempt to start

normally.



The content of the bootlog.prv file, especially the last 20 or so

lines, should be a direct clue as to the specific cause of the failed

boot.



You can also download a free bootlog analyzer program from

http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/terrace/pk29/ which you can use to

check out the bootlog.prv file.



Good luck







Ron Martell     Duncan B.C.    Canada

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