jacktesterson
Diamond Member
Hi,
I have an older machine I keep going for my fathers business, its a 266 MMX. Over the past few weeks, out of the blue (suddenly happens without doing anything) when powering the PC up, I get an explorer.exe error before anything is loaded, leaving me with a desktop background and nothing running. All I can do is shut down through alt+ctrl+del. Safe mode does the same thing. Installing Win98 SE over top of it will get it working, but that causes a mess of junk and I only do it to back stuff up...then I format and reload. This will be the third time this has happened.....all on fresh formats/installs on the same PC. Is there a way of fixing this without installing over top of the current installation or formating? Could this be a hard-drive problem?
I have an older machine I keep going for my fathers business, its a 266 MMX. Over the past few weeks, out of the blue (suddenly happens without doing anything) when powering the PC up, I get an explorer.exe error before anything is loaded, leaving me with a desktop background and nothing running. All I can do is shut down through alt+ctrl+del. Safe mode does the same thing. Installing Win98 SE over top of it will get it working, but that causes a mess of junk and I only do it to back stuff up...then I format and reload. This will be the third time this has happened.....all on fresh formats/installs on the same PC. Is there a way of fixing this without installing over top of the current installation or formating? Could this be a hard-drive problem?
