BSOD on startup!!..can I reinstall 98SE over itself without formatting??

[stockjock]

I have this posted on the operating system thread as well..but we all know where the true gurus hang out...here in the overclockers thread!!!

I've been getting a lot of BSOD's lately at startup..the OE error almost always says this "Fatal Exception OE occurred at 0147:0000663d"

First: does anyone know what that code means?
Second: can I reinstall 98SE over itself without running into same problems?

And yes I have taken the CPU back down to default speed and yes I still get BSOD's. The only thing I have done lately was upgrade the SB Live drivers...I guess I could try installing the old ones...but I don't think that is the problem because the computer ran fine for a while with the new drivers...

anyway enough..any help would be appreciated

 

[Mem]

Yes you should be able to reinstall Win98SE over itself,I did this when I changed my cpu & board had a few protection errors etc,so I just reinstalled my Win98 os1 & it`s been rock stable since.

 

[Lunchboxah]

You can reinstall but I'm always more comfortable doing a fresh install from an Fdisk'ed and formatted drive. If you have a spare drive lying around you could use Norton Ghost (or another cloning utility) to backup the hosed drive.

Setup Windows again and use Norton Ghost Explorer to grab everything you need from that backup *.GHO file on the secondary drive.

 

[stockjock]

ok..Lunch...I do have a spare drive laying around and I think have Norton Ghost..
After I move the files over using ghost and I fdisk my main drive and reinstall 98SE...I know I will be able to move those files back to the main drive..but will ghost put them back as if they were never gone...for example programs that need to be in the registry?????

 

[JokerF15]

yes

 

[Technonut]

There is also this method: Reinstalling Windows Without Formatting