Hi my Grandmas Windows 98 is not booting. I turn her Pc on It goes a blue Screen that says HEwelett PAcker. It goes to windows 98 screen and does not go any farther. What is wrong?
If you cannot do anything else to the system, then it may be a sign that 98 is trying to initialize a piece of hardware that is no longer working properly. It's all trial and error from here on out. I'd start with removing any PCI cards, CD/floppy drives and try booting the system on the bare essentials. If it has more than one stick of memory, remove one of them. If it still doesn't boot, then either something from the hardware is corrupt (such as the memory) or a device driver has been corrupted and you may have to start fresh.
Sorry was guessing - but the error includes the Hewlett Packard line, so its crashing trying to init an HP device - edit the startup to avoid this loading
That Hewlett Packard "blue screen", it's just a OEM logo (i think). I mean it loads beyond the Hewlett Packard "blue screen" as im reading it. "I turn her Pc on It goes a blue Screen that says HEwelett PAcker. It goes to windows 98 screen and does not go any farther" --- I just want to make sure, but you did get the menu with the option Safe Mode right ? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/180902/EN-US/ How to Perform Clean-Boot Troubleshooting for Windows 98 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/192926/
Ive seen that amount of ram before. 64 and 16 mb...but very odd though. I'd sugggest finding her something that can handle XP. Win 98 is not supported anymore as of this year i believe (guys corrrect me on this if i am wrong).