🚀 go-pugleaf

Lord-Data wrote:

> Tried booting the recovery CD? Dunno about back in the 98 days, but more 
> recent recovery discs can be booted.. Also some compaq systems with recovery 
> partition on HDD have a key press you can hold at boot time to boot directly 
> into recovery mode from the partition, bypassing the need for the CD..
> 
> 
> "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
> news:40jp80F1b0ijuU1@individual.net...
> 
>>Rather odd problem with a Win98SE install on a Compaq Prosignia 340.
>>
>>IE, OE, VET and firefox all crash very quickly after starting them.
>>
>>Everything else works fine.
>>
>>Those that do crash are all attempting to use the net.
>>Firefox was installed after first seeing the problem and
>>is the evidence that there is some fundamental problem
>>with net access somewhere.
>>
>>The system file checker did replace a couple of files, made no difference.
>>
>>It was running IE and OE 6, repairing IE 6 made no
>>difference, uninstalling that back to 5 made no difference.
>>
>>Same result with the internal modem and an external router.
>>
>>Clean install of 98SE fixes the problem completely so its
>>clearly SE thats got screwed up somehow. Reasonably
>>clean install of SE, tho its been installed quite a while now.
>>
>>Main problem is that I cant get the Compaq QuickRestore
>>to even start, it just whines 'restoration cannot continue',
>>
>>   This is caused by one of the following conditions :
>>   The QuickRestore disk is not in the drive
>>
>>cant be that, the CD is in the drive and the floppy makes no difference
>>
>>   This QuickRestore disk is not designed for this computer
>>
>>thats a real possibility, as far as I know its never been used
>>
>>   The system board has been replace
>>
>>not as far as I am aware
>>
>>   The Flash BIOS is corrupt or has been rewritten
>>
>>no evidence of either
>>
>>   A hardware error has occurred
>>
>>no evidence of any hardware problem.
>>
>>It comes with a diskette too which appears to write the serial
>>number to the hard drive and diskette. That runs fine with no
>>complaints and it makes no difference if thats in the drive when
>>the QuickRestore CD is booted.
>>
>>
>>So I'd like some way of actually fixing the problem in the current
>>SE install thats causing the crashes in IE, OE, VET and firefox.
>>Presumably it must be a problem with one of the dlls or something,
>>but the system file checker doesnt see any problem with any of them.
>>
>>Or some way of getting the QuickRestore to work.
>>
>>I can obviously do a clean install of SE from a normal OEM CD
>>and the product key on the SE manual works fine. But thats quite
>>a bit different in detail to the original SE install, no drivers etc and
>>it looks like there is a problem with the drivers from
>>http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/DesktopProsignia/us/family/134.html?lang=en&cc=us&prodSeriesId=96448
>>no obviously suitable video driver for starters, this one has an intel
>>chipset video. The original SE install has got the supplementary
>>drivers on the hard drive too, so you dont have to fart around
>>with a CD when say adding a NIC etc either.
>>
> 
> 
> 

That's F4 if I remember right.
But if he's already upgraded to Win98se then he'd be trying to run a 
earlier OS on it.

Kevin