Win98 "Press F1 to resume" Error on Boot-up

[GR1EVER]

Couple days ago, my comp was on DOING NOTHING and I was away for a sec... then when I came back, there was the blue-screen saying I had a disk-write error.

Ever since then, when I start up, RIGHT before it loads windows, it requires me to press F1 to resume, when I've never had to do this before.

- I've posted on other forums about this and they told me to get StartUp Log, which generated these files:

http://members.cox.net/gr1ever/random_crap/StartUp.txt

and

http://members.cox.net/gr1ever/random_crap/StubPath.txt

- I'm not sure how those help but the people at the forum never replied when I posted that info.

- There are NO error/warning/normal/abnormal message(s) that pop up before the command "Press F1 to resume" so I have NO idea what could be wrong.

- I have searched these forums and I HAVE seen the post that addresses what I believe is the very same problem, but I did not find it very useful so I decided to post it again.

Please help because I've scoured the net to no avail and posted on two other forums besides this one about my problem... all to no avail.

Thanks,
gr1ever

 

[smah]

I would say that it's bios related. The fact that you can still load windows after resuming, would imply that it's nothing drastic. For clarification, does this happen when you first turn the computer on? I would suspect that your bios is seeing (or believes it is) some kind of hardware problem. Many systems are set to 'halt on all errors'. Are your floppy drive and and keyboard still working properly? Does windows still show the correct amount of memory?

 

[GR1EVER]

IT happens after all the stuff is detected...

it detects... Keyboard Legacy, Mouse Legacy and Legacy USB and thats it... then it shows the "f1 to resume" thing without any error message before it.

it comes up right before windows should load.

windows does display the correct amount of memory (128 MB)

thanks for the advice but is there any way to fix this problem??

 

[GR1EVER]

sorry... correction... it detects all that stuff aside from the normal fixed disk drive, cd-rom drive, cd-rw drive, and (im assuming, i'd have to check) removable disk drive

 

[edfair]

You might go into CMOS setup and document all the settings, then set everything to default, then reset to what you documented.
This generally is a error in some setting,but as you noted, no error message, so therefore not critical.
And could be as simple as the battery getting weak.

The hard drive write error may be related to drive size if it got clobbered in the CMOS. And that could be the source of the error message also. Ed Fair
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[GR1EVER]

thanks for the advice..

Im not sure how to do all that CMOS setup stuff... and, if it was my battery getting weak, would I have to replace it? Is that hard to do?

 

[edfair]

If it is battery you will eventually have to replace it. And it will be better if you have your settings documented now rather than after you have lost them all. Ed Fair
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