Since nobody is looking at the Tech Support forum, I'll post here!
OK, i'm working on an old Win98 system and it has me completely befuddled.
It had been hanging at boot when the owner brought it to me. It would boot into safe mode and I found it had viruses and spyware out the wazoo, so I decided to reformat/reinstall.
Well, even after reinstalling, while attempting to boot the first time it hangs. Looking at BOOTLOG.TXT it shows the last entry to be IFSHLP.SYS.
Then I remove everything (litterally) except the video card and keyboard and one stick of RAM...same problem.
So, I thought the hard drive might be bad. Ran Maxtor PowerDiag on it (since it's a 10GB Maxtor) and it passed the "recertification test".
Just for giggles, I popped in another known-OK 30GB drive with the same result.
Any ideas what is going on and how to get this POS to boot in normal mode?
OK, i'm working on an old Win98 system and it has me completely befuddled.
It had been hanging at boot when the owner brought it to me. It would boot into safe mode and I found it had viruses and spyware out the wazoo, so I decided to reformat/reinstall.
Well, even after reinstalling, while attempting to boot the first time it hangs. Looking at BOOTLOG.TXT it shows the last entry to be IFSHLP.SYS.
Then I remove everything (litterally) except the video card and keyboard and one stick of RAM...same problem.
So, I thought the hard drive might be bad. Ran Maxtor PowerDiag on it (since it's a 10GB Maxtor) and it passed the "recertification test".
Just for giggles, I popped in another known-OK 30GB drive with the same result.
Any ideas what is going on and how to get this POS to boot in normal mode?
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