Win 98 Boot Up

**dragon2309** · 10-24-2005, 03:05 PM

I have one Pc with XP instlled and one with 98 SE. On the one with 98 SE there si a problem, well kinda, when you boot up.

It POST's it detects drives, it goes past all that BIOS crap. It is when the 98 splash screen should come up it goes a bit wierd, it starts listing the diretory trees (i.e. dir C:\) of all the windows directories. This lasts about 1:30 mins. Then for a split second it flashes up the end of the 98 splash screen and conitinues to load into windows.

So wahts all this about, instead of seeing the blue and white line at the bottom of the 98 screen i get a dir list of practically everything on the C drive. Its not a problem, because windows still loads with no problems, any ideas wot it is doing.???

dragon2309

**Cromewell** · 10-24-2005, 08:26 PM

are you sure it's directory listings or is it various drivers and such being loaded?

10-24-2005, 03:05 PM	#1 (permalink)
dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 20 Posts: 8,435	Win 98 Boot Up I have one Pc with XP instlled and one with 98 SE. On the one with 98 SE there si a problem, well kinda, when you boot up. It POST's it detects drives, it goes past all that BIOS crap. It is when the 98 splash screen should come up it goes a bit wierd, it starts listing the diretory trees (i.e. dir C:\) of all the windows directories. This lasts about 1:30 mins. Then for a split second it flashes up the end of the 98 splash screen and conitinues to load into windows. So wahts all this about, instead of seeing the blue and white line at the bottom of the 98 screen i get a dir list of practically everything on the C drive. Its not a problem, because windows still loads with no problems, any ideas wot it is doing.??? dragon2309 __________________ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

10-24-2005, 08:26 PM	#2 (permalink)
Cromewell Moderator Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Canada Age: 25 Posts: 10,215	are you sure it's directory listings or is it various drivers and such being loaded? __________________ You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat you with 'til ya understand who's in ruttin' command here. I must plug a couple comics because they are good :D: www.ctrlaltdel-online.com www.userfriendly.org

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