WIN98 bootup hang

[ramuno]

I just reformatted my hard drive and reinstalling my stuff. Half the time, Windows 98 (first edition) will not completely boot. No harware has changed and it is the same copy of WIN98 that I had before. Bootlog reports that it does not load the fonts. Safe mode boots fine. Thanks for any help.

 

[DigitalDaddy]

What are your system specs.

 

[ramuno]

K6III-400, Tyan 1598 VIA chipset, Matrox G200SD AGP 32MB, Acer 8x4x32 burner, BCD 40X, Mitsubishi LS120 Supperfloppy, Teac Floppy, SB Live, 128MB PC100 CAS2, Canon FB620U scanner USB

WIN98 first edition, all the latest drivers, 4in1 Via patches, USB 108 patch

 

[cirrus1]

Where does the booting hang?

 

[ramuno]

Since I have disabled my WIN slash screen, I can see the DOS commands. It never gets out of DOS. With a step-by-step bootup, it gets past loading the last DOS command (msmouse driver). It then hangs until it is hard rebooted.

Checking the bootlog, it shows that everything loads until it get to the Windows fonts. All the fonts fail to load.