My computer does that sometimes, (it shows boot screen but stays just on that screen) all i did was unplug my computer for 24 hours and it works again. see if that works.

i took out the battery inside the machine. and unplugged it, I'm hoping the bios will revert to the factory setting by then. i think I'll wait the day.

editness:
ha i fixed it. the battery controled the saved settings for the bios.

system is back online now.

(This post was last modified: 09/06/2007 07:27 PM by Syfe.)

You still didn't explain what you did, but it sounds like you meant the BIOS (there's no such thing as a "recovery menu", the PC ain't a PSP).

Taking out the CMOS battery (looks like a watch battery) will clear the CMOS (where BIOS settings are stored in).

I guess what you did was fiddle with some settings, and stopped the computer from booting up at all.


Next time, it would be nice if you could be more clear (I played with the BIOS settings, and now the computer won't boot up at all - as in, nothing comes up when you press the power button).
I thought you were talking about the Windows bootloader the whole time there.

no... yeah i su.ck at trying to explain things. okay there is this feature on mine it's called System Refresh. By default it's set to automatic. and yeah, i turned it to disabled and the computer wouldn't power up.

by removing this battery, the CMOS (BIOS) was cleared and i was able to reset the important settings such as the time and date, plus etc stuff. suggested remove time 1/2 hr.

i used to have a machine that forgot after 30 minutes after it was off it. This got annoying to reset that machine from time to time. dos based machine too.

how slow is your 98? lol

P2 500. with 128mb of ram. 4gb in total HDD space. Standard one stream only sound card. Graphics card supports openGL. (i can play return to castle wolf on that) TV out. PS2 Controllers could connect. PSP could Connect. lol. this is all true.

I used to have a Celeron 533MHz with 128MB SDRAM, 4GB HDD, 4MB video card...  until I managed to get my current one last year :P
Ran XP fine, though I did tweak the hell out of it.

my new one is a stock machine (nothing upgraded about it) and it's fast still. although there are some points where it would need an upgarde

I was running on a celeron at 666mhz like 2 yrs ago... And it ran XP alright. Yeah, a bit slow, but not too bad. 98 runs perfectly.

on my win98 machine i could have ran XP on it. although it did have major limits stuck onto it. random kernel inpage errors here and there.