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Problems Booting PC
This series discusses what you should do if you encounter problems booting your PC – whether the PC doesn't start at all, or appears to have power and yet nothing appears to happen. If the problem is that you're getting a bad-sounding error message about the hard drive, jump to our Hard Drive series. Two things to always have on hand: your operating system (usually Windows 95 or 98) CD and a boot disk with a CD-ROM driver installed, just in case.

  Tutorials
  Tries to Boot But No Drive
  PC Reboots Spontaneously
  Clean Boot with Windows 95
  Check WinStart.BAT
  Clean Booting and WIN.INI (95)
  Another Way to Clean Boot
  Stop Protected Mode Drivers
  Safe Mode Booting (Win95)
  Safe Mode - Bad Video Driver
  Registry Problems at Bootup
  Booting: Nothing Happens
  Reverse What You Just Did
  128K Not Okay, Parity Disabled
  Bad DMA Port = xx
  Bad Partition Table Error
  CMOS Battery State Low
  CMOS Checksum Failure
  Data Error Reading Drive X
  "Disk Bad" Message
  Disk Boot Error
  Disk Configuration Error
  PC Won't Always Boot
  Missing Command Interpreter
  DMA Error on Boot
  Expansion Board NMI - Slot X
  FDD Controller Failure
  Bad File Allocation Table
  Internal Cache Test Failed
  "Keyboard Bad" Error
  Keyboard Clock Line Failure
  XX=ScanCode, Check Keyboard
  Memory Parity Error at XXX
  Won't Boot After Move
  Virus Announces Itself on Boot
  CH-2 Timer Error
  Real Time Clock Failure
  Unlock System Unit Keylock
  Won't Boot After Adding Card
  No Boot - New Motherboard
  PC Has Power - No Bootup
  PC Beeps - Won't Boot
  Hear PC Boot - No Display
  Boot, No Display - Fast Beeps