[RESOLVED] PC Wars, Man vs Machine

[Gotenks33]

Hello all, I have been at war with my computer and so far its winning . I have a P3 500, 128 pc100 ram, WD 13.6 GB HDD,Viper V770 Ultra Video, MX300 Audio, SMC 1208 Network Card, and 10x Pioneer DVD all on a TYAN 1854 Trinity 400 MoBo.

Here is my problem:

Ok, I reformated my hard drive 1 day because I wanted a fresh start. I went through the whole process, installed windows 98, and after trying to install some of my drivers I got this error "Registry Checker was unable to access Registry, Please restart and registry will backup an old copy,"(this happened right after windows started when I was restarting my pc. So I restarted and it backs up a copy that had none of the drivers I just installed, then all types of errors would occur (such as invalid page faults, and invalid .vxd files), and then when I try to re install the drivers it would happen again.

So After reformating and installing windows for the 6th time and this same thing keeps happening , I came here because I have no clue what to do , ive tried EVERYTHING.....SOMEONE PLZ HELP, IM LOST AT SEA. THANK YOU =)

[NPaladin]

DO a full Scandisk with surface scan on your hard drive...you might have a bad sector.....also, try it with just bare bones hardware installed....HDD, CD, and video. Mabye there's a conflict (But try the scandisk FIRST!!)

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[Paul Cunningham]

Did you install the Motherboards IDE / DMA drivers ? If so, try uninstalling them and see what happens

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[Schui]

had the same prob a few weeks back.... Installed new hardware, and removed the enum folder in the reg. rebooted, and all seemed ok. Every 2 boots it replaces the registry, and then back to square 1....

bought a new mobo, and voila....!

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