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[jkellynewyork]

Ok check this out!!

I built my first comput, and the pain in the arse problem I am having is with the first edition windows 98 operating system. In detail, when 98 boots up it ask you to play "Cool Video Clips", and some of them run great, yet some of them causes freeze ups. "Intro" is one of the clips that causes freeze ups. And a few other like "MSNBC". My computer runs great, except for the fact that when I first built my computer and ran these clips they ran very smooth. It gives me this very bad feeling inside that I cannot run them any longer, when they used to work. Another clue that might help is that when I started experiencing these problems was after I tweaked my bois and installed many other programs that might have did damage. But one more thing, I tried to correct any damage I may have caused, I reformated my hard drive and put in windows again,(but this might be it please read this, windows said I still had an operating system installed, even though I thought I reformated everything( The Reformat was format C: /s, is this right,
should I have done it another way)Well, the bottem line is that it still freezes up, even tough I reinstalled everything, I cannot get it to run like it did. Please help.
Pisses me off.
Bottem line and correct me if I am wrong, you should be able to run these video clips no problem. What the f is going on?

 

[Toro 45]

when I started experiencing these problems was after I tweaked my bois and installed many other programs that might have did damage.


Go back into the bios & "Restore Bios Defaults" if you have'nt already.If it's not a bios setting & you did a fresh install then it must be a hardware problem.
Toro

 

[jkellynewyork]

TORO 45, Thanksfor reply:

what type of hardware prob(I restored BIOS Defaults) The only thing I could think of is that I
installed
a CD-RW. But I am not sure if problems happened after or before. Either way,should that effect anything?o do with video?

 

[DoubleL]

Something is not right with your format, If you fdisked the harddrive and deleted the partician and made a new active partician and then reformated with the C:/s their is no way you can have a operating system, It doesn't mater what you do or did to the bios, When you delete something it is gone, If you are a little unsure of how to format you can download the ultimate boot disk and let that set the harddrive up for you, But I still like doing it the old way with a standard boot disk

 

[Wiz]

Depending on how you went about the "reformat" you may have actually done nothing.
To do it right you need to boot from a floppy that contains Fdisk and format programs.
First you run Fdisk, delete your partitions, then recreate your partition / partitions then reboot and then "format c: /s" and then you reinstall Windows. Make sure you have a Windows 98 start up boot disk!!! and that you boot from it and can find your cd drive after boting BEFORE you run fdisk / format. That way you don't get into a situation where you have fallen down and you can not get back up.
Of course it should go without saying to save any important data to other media and your mileage may vary. (ymmv)