This can be an annoying problem and can take some playing around. If you remove the modem and leave the NIC in the computer does the NIC install and run properly?
If it does - check the BIOS settings - shut down things that are not being used - is the second com port used if not disable it - ...
make sure you have a startup disk that has format on it. Sometimes the ones that come with Win98 don't have this included on them. If it isn't goto C:\windows\command and copy format to your floppy. Start the computer up with the floppy and make sure it allows CD Rom support. Format the...
Start the computer in safe mode (press the f8 key at startup - will give you choices on how to start the computer - select 3 - safe mode).
When computer has booted turn off - screen saver and run degrag - if the system insists you run scandisk run it - under options (before running scandisk -...
I am working on a machine that is using an ata promise raid -- 2 drives - disk mirroring (raid1). The operating system didn't want to boot so I decided to do a safe recovery - install win98 over the top of itself. Usually works on fixing this type of error unless the registry is really hacked...
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