go out to www.bootdisk.com and grab one of the generic CD boot floppies. It may be that your floppy drivers are incompatible with the CD drive you're trying to use. "padman"...

Surprise, surprise! Thanks for explaining that. Bill Starbuck (MVP)

Good point. I should have suggested this. Bill Starbuck (MVP)

CMOS sheck sum error- default loaded. I can open in safe mode. Any suggestions?

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Purchase an retail upgrade and install it. I would suggest win98SE instead of win98. It may be difficult to find since it is no longer being distributed. Try ebay -- Jon Hildrum DTS...

You can get a utility for creating a boot disk for this machine at www.bootdisk.com. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 "Cmjones" <cmjones68@hotmail.com> wrote in...

Try creating a new boot floppy. http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm Ben "cmjones" <cmjones68@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:7944FDF5-44CE-47C3-BDC1-1BACDCA3837C@microsoft.com...

when you are in safe mode ..check in control panel under display, you may have more than one video card in there. delete all the video cards , reboot and let windows redect your new card. double...

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To see the version of Windows 95, right-click on My Computer and choose Properties. (For more details, see document 158238 in the Microsoft KnowledgeBase.) Service Pack 1 changed the Windows 95...

i don't know why but i am getting invalid page fault and illegal operation errors when i try to load gaming pages. Java script is enabled and only happens when i try to get to any games online. eg)...

FrontPage 2000 would be the last one you could use. Ivan "Frank W. Uebersax" <f-uebersax@msn.com> wrote in message news:e2Bh0f46DHA.2628@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl... What is the latest or most advanced...

See here for information about the swap file. http://aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.htm Windows 98 & WinME Memory Management Conventional, upper and XMS memory are DOS concerns and have nothing to do with...

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Thanks for the suggestions.

Thanks to everyone with all the suggestions. I'm pretty sure now I have a bad floppy drive. Thanks again for your time and patience. Kelly

1st problem that comes to mind is that you need to clean your media and drives. Second, since this is a "zombie" box, you need to run a burn-in diaglostic to see if all the parts are happy together....

What modem are you using? There are tons of inf files in windows that surely we can come up with something that will work,. In general, I recommend a USR Sportster 28.8 internal, and a Hayes 14.4...