reggaefan
Zone 8b Louisiana
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:18 am Post subject: CajunBelle and Reggaefan's Computer Woes |
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Hey guys,
This is CajunBelle and Reggaefan's daughter, right now their computer won't start up at all, it just goes to a fatal exception screen after startup, so they may be gone for a while. If anyone has a Windows98 Bootdisk they can loan us, will you PM Reggaefan's account?
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glendann
Texas
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:04 am Post subject: |
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I sent a PM to Richard
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zuzu's petals
Coastal N.Carolina ~zone 8~
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:05 am Post subject: |
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OH NO!!!  What rotten luck, I hate it when technology turns against me.
I dont have '98, my laptop runs XP.
Hope their compu-woes are cleared up soon.
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glendann
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:06 am Post subject: |
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I have an old Gateway with 98 in it
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reggaefan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:33 am Post subject: |
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Yes, I downloaded a boot disk from that site, but the computer won't let me load it. I can pretty much only access anything via a DOS prompt from the startup screen, even when I set the BIOS to load directly from the floppy.
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Frank
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:38 am Post subject: |
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Can you navigate to the floppy disk drive from the DOS prompt i.e. type cd A: , and call a startup file or similar directly?
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reggaefan
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 10:01 pm Post subject: |
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I've tried, but it keeps telling me that DOS can't execute the program. I'm getting some more floppy disks today to try again.
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Frank
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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I think you should also be able to boot from the Windows 98 CD-ROM if you set CD-ROM as the first read device in BIOS. I'm not sure about that one though.
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eileen
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| Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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Let's hope you can get it up and running soon for Richard and Sharon as we miss them already.  I have withdrawal symptoms - I'll need another fix of your dad's poetry before long or I could run amok here on the forums!!!! 
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. Thanks for letting us know DD. You can get all sorts of bootdisks here 