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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Setup / February 2006windows 98 : floppy drive, and startup boot menu issues
Hi, I recently formatted my hard drive and reinstalled win 98. Everything seems fine except that the floppy drive hammers for about ten seconds every time I try to access the my computer icon or the control panel icon within it. Short of disconnecting the drive power supply (in case floppy drive is damaged) I have tried all of the suggestions that I could find that other people with a simmilar problem have been given. The floppy drive loads/reads/copies files just fine. Any suggestions here would be appreciated. I also have a boot menu appear on starting the machine which prompts me to start with windows cd-rom, start with cd-rom support or start without cd-rom support. These are the only options in the menu. This seems more like a boot disk menu than the expected menu that you get when pressing the F8 key at bootup. The only thought I had on this was that the machine might be trying to read from a copy of the boot disk files on the hard drive. I loaded windows via a floppy boot disc. It would be nice to get rid of this menu at startup if anyone can help. There are other minor issues which I have on hold for now such as missing drivers that cannot be found on the motherboard disk or on other driver disks I have for the machine. These are all the originals for the machine? I guess a tool which finds these online would be helpfull if anyone knows of any trials or freebie's. ta love0068 Try renaming "c:\autoexec.bat" to "autoexec.bak" and "c:\config.sys" to "config.bak". A restart will probably be required. Ben > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > ta > love0068 Thanks Ben, I will try this as soon as I can get to the machine. ta love0068 My standard blurb--note the final article: Open the registry editor and do a find on: A:\ but before deleting the entry, export the key so you can restore the registry should problems occur. Most likely a reference will be in an MRU key. Be sure to use F3 to continue the search as there could be multiple entries. Here are articles on other causes: Floppy Disk Drive Is Active When Opening or Saving Files http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=216752 Floppy Drive Is Accessed When You Open My Computer http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=272242  SignatureRegards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > ta > love0068 Ron, I have become booged down with work and wont be able to try any of this till the weekend. I will keep you up to date with what happens when I can try your suggestions. thanks love0068 I have a similar problem, only mine occurs when shutting the PC down or using the Find command. I have traced the problem to the McAfee AVG because when I disable it, the problem goes away. What AVG are you using and if it is McAfee, what version is the Engine? The problem has only occurred for the last two weeks after some McAfee updates which may have included a new engine as the PC is now running a lot quicker when opening up programs. I have asked for a fix on the Forum, unfortunately, the fix points me to a folder which does exist in the Registry but there is no data in it to change. So I have asked for further help. I have checked Ron's two KB articles and for the first I don't have any files with that suffix in my system and the second my value is b5 00 00 00 not 95 00 00 00. Not knowing how to translate the data, I don't know how significant this is. I do have some A:\ locations in the Registry which I might try if the McAfee path comes to a dead end. Alan > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > ta > love0068 McAfee AV was a well known cause of the problem a few of years ago. Next time your AV comes up for renewal, consider a change to ETrust or AVG. As I recall, there may be a setting you can change by checking the settings on the properties sheet (right-click the Virus Scan icon in the tray). Note that things may have changed since the last time I heard about this problem. The registry entry is wrong and you should change it; however, I do not believe it is causing your problem--McAfee probably is just as you suspect. SignatureRegards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo >I have a similar problem, only mine occurs when shutting the PC down or > using the Find command. I have traced the problem to the McAfee AVG [quoted text clipped - 41 lines] >> ta >> love0068 Ron, I have carried out all the checks and deleted as per your previous posts. However, I still have the problem which as we have concluded is possibly down to McAfee. I have asked on the McAfee forum for VirusScan 9 for help and have been told to change some settings in the registry - details below:- 1. Click on Start --- Run, type REGEDIT and press OK. 2. Click on + sign next to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE. 3. Click on + sign next to the Software. 4. Click on + sign next to the Network Associates. 5. Click on + sign next to the TVD. 6. Click on + sign next to the Shared Component. 7 Click on + sign next to the On Access Scanner. 8. Click on + sign next to the McShield. 9. Now click on folder Configuration. 10. Change the binary value of bScan Incoming and bScanOutgoing from 1 to 0. 11. Restart the Computer. Unfortunately, I don't have any information at all in the Configuration folder, which I have highlighted but so far no response - not very helpful. I have reloaded twice, using the McAfee VirusScan software removal program the last time and still no data in that folder!. I live in hope. Alan. > McAfee AV was a well known cause of the problem a few of years ago. Next > time your AV comes up for renewal, consider a change to ETrust or AVG. [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] > >> ta > >> love0068 Hi Alan, I'm not running McAfee, I use Trend Micro PC-Cillin 2004. The problem was there before I installed this so I expect it is an unrelated issue. cheers love0068 |
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