This is very strange, I have xp pro on a homemade computer. My son plays video games on it nonstop, but thats another story Yesterday it SUDDENLY started tring to boot on windows 98. Now at one TIME I did have 98 on this hard drive but that was years ago and it has been formated many times SINCE. The processor, memory and mother board have always ran on xp.

Of course it cannot find any 98 files for they are not there. I booted it up on a old norton disk and it ran normal. I ran the virus scan from my yahoo browser and the spyware detector. Then I went to microsoft and updated the latest patch.

Restarted and back to 98 again :-?  I do not know how to do the registery my skills are more rip out boards and start over lol.
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FrigeWhat makes you think it is booting to 98?
Using Windows Classic Desktop?It never gets that far, just a black screen with white type that says something about windows 98 having problems finding files... Any disks in any slots?I know there is not a cd, But I will check for floppys as soon as I get home.I checked and there are no disks. I can get it to start by hitting escape right as it boots and choosing hard drive cLet's save ourselves some time.

Download, unzip, install and run Everest Home Edition
http://www.comcen.com.au/~fed/everest.zip

Select Computer>Summary from the left hand screen.
Right click in the right hand screen & select Copy All
Paste the details in here.Here ya go

Field      Value
Computer      
Operating System      Microsoft Windows XP Professional
OS Service Pack      Service Pack 2
DirectX      4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name      CHICKENSLAYER
User Name      Dad
      
Motherboard      
CPU Type      AMD Athlon 64, 2200 MHz (11 x 200) 3200+
Motherboard Name      DFI LANParty UT nF3 250Gb  (5 PCI, 1 AGP, 3 DDR DIMM, Audio, Gigabit LAN)
Motherboard Chipset      nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb, AMD Hammer
System Memory      512 MB  (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type      Award (08/27/04)
Communication Port      Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port      Communications Port (COM2)
Communication Port      Printer Port (LPT1)
      
Display      
Video Adapter      NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200  (256 MB)
3D Accelerator      nVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Monitor      Samsung SyncMaster 730B (Analog)  [17" LCD]  (HMEY504384)
      
Multimedia      
Audio Adapter      Creative SB0350 Audigy 2 ZS Sound Card
Audio Adapter      nVIDIA MCP2-S - Audio Codec Interface
      
Storage      
IDE Controller      Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
IDE Controller      Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
IDE Controller      Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller
Floppy Drive      Floppy disk drive
Disk Drive      WDC WD400BB-00AUA1  (37 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive      WDC WD1000BB-00CCB0  (93 GB, IDE)
Optical Drive      _NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A  (DVD+RW:8x/4x, DVD-RW:8x/4x, DVD-ROM:12x, CD:32x/16x/40x DVD+RW/DVD-RW)
SMART Hard Disks Status      OK
      
Partitions      
C: (NTFS)      38154 MB (18668 MB free)
D: (FAT32)      95370 MB (76377 MB free)
Total Size      130.4 GB (92.8 GB free)
      
Input      
Keyboard      Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse      HID-compliant mouse
      
Network      
Network Adapter      NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller #2 - Packet Scheduler Miniport  (192.168.1.64)
      
Peripherals      
Printer      HP Deskjet F300 series
Printer      hp psc 1310 series
USB1 Controller      nVIDIA MCP2-S - OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
USB1 Controller      nVIDIA MCP2-S - OHCI USB 1.1 Controller
USB2 Controller      nVIDIA MCP2-S - EHCI USB 2.0 Controller
USB Device      Deskjet F300 series (DOT4USB)
USB Device      HP Deskjet F300
USB Device      USB Composite Device
USB Device      USB Human Interface Device
USB Device      USB Printing Support
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Computer Name      CHICKENSLAYER