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re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?'
Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 1:55 pm
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Posted by Dino LaMana (5 messages posted)

My comp is doing almost the same thing. After I rebooted one night, after the Win98 logo was displayed and it would normally show the desktop, and start loading anything under the STARTUP section. It flashed an all blue screen with a little grey/white box. There was no writing or anything at all. Then it reboots into safe mode and cannot detect my mouse, modem or cd-rom. I cannot figure out why this is happening. These are the system specs: Dell Dimension 500 (P3 500MHz) 26GB HD 128MB SDRAM (single DIMM) Win98 SE Direct X 8.1 MS Office XP IE 5 Mozilla 1.4b nVidia TNT2 32MB AGP Yamaha DX Sound Altec Lansing Speakers/Subwoofer US Robotics 56KB Modem MS Intellipoint mouse Dell MS Natural Keyboard I hope this helps, please let me know if you need more info. I also tryed booting from the startup disk, but it didn't work - especially now that it thinks there is no CD-ROM! Sincerely; D. LaMana zenbaby@dmv.com --------------

On Sunday, November 25, 2001 at 6:23 pm, Everett wrote:
>Chell:
>Determine if an AV program is running by pressing the Esc key during startup to close
>the Windows logo screen. If an AV program is running, you may be able to control
>the AV program from this screen. Choose the option that prevents the pause from occurring
>when you start Windows. If no AV program is running, continue to the next step.
>Disable the Windows logo screen. To do so, add the following line to the [Options]
>section of the Msdos.sys file:
>Logo=0
>For additional information about how to edit the Msdos.sys file, click the QuickLink
>after your text below. If still no joy see the troubleshooting article Q188867 (use
>QuickLink below).
>

Written in response to:: re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Everett: Sunday, November 25, 2001 at 6:23 pm)

Responses to this message:
re: Startup problems (Everett: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 3:04 pm)

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Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Chell: Sun, Nov 25, 2001, 2:26 am)

re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (robojam: Sun, Nov 25, 2001, 10:30 am)

sounds like a problem with the registry... (amaralliya e. thenardier: Sun, Nov 25, 2001, 11:28 am)

re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (sekirt: Sun, Nov 25, 2001, 2:45 pm)

re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Everett: Sun, Nov 25, 2001, 6:23 pm)

re: Question about 'Why can't I start Windows when I boot from a floppy?' (Dino LaMana: Wed, Jan 22, 2003, 1:55 pm)

re: Startup problems (Everett: Wed, Jan 22, 2003, 3:04 pm)

re: Startup problems (Dino LaMana: Wed, Jan 22, 2003, 10:06 pm)

re: Startup problems (Dino LaMana: Sun, Jan 26, 2003, 12:51 pm)

re: Changing file attributes (Everett: Sun, Jan 26, 2003, 2:26 pm)

re: Changing file attributes (Dino LaMana: Sun, Jan 26, 2003, 10:06 pm)

re: Changing file attributes (Everett: Mon, Jan 27, 2003, 10:42 am)

re: Changing file attributes (Dino LaMana: Mon, Jan 27, 2003, 4:35 pm)

re: Changing file attributes (Natasha: Thu, Dec 16, 2004, 8:57 am)

Restored Registry (Muncin98: Sun, May 1, 2005, 9:43 am)

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