Odd windows 98 hanging at boot
Posted by Sway

This is a very odd problem, and it goes like this...

I'll boot up my cpu into win98se, and it'll start up fine. I'll use it for a while, then, at some point i'll have to reboot, but once i reboot and get to the logon screen, a few things may happen...

1) I will get a windows error in programs like USER.EXE, KRNL386.EXE, and BROWSEUI.DLL

2) I will get a blue screen with a VxD error.

if neither one appears immidieatly at logon, it will appear right after logon

I will always be forced to reboot either way from these errors, and they will be waiting for me again when I reboot.

The only way it seems to avoid these errors (and here's the odd part) is to turn off the cpu and let it sit for about 2 hours. When I come back and boot, it starts fine, and the cycle begins again.

I have..

AMD Duron 800MHz
IWILL KV200-R with VIA Apollo KT133 chipset
C-Media onboard sound card
nVidia GeForce4 MX 440
Realtek NIC card
256 SDRAM

any help would be appreciated
-Mike


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