February 20th 04, 01:32 AM
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This won't fix the problem, but I had the same problem using an HP PC
Card CDRW writer in Windows 98: with the card in, the screen would
stay black with a blinking cursor. With the card removed, I could boot
Win98 and then insert the card and use the drive normally. Exaustive
e-mailing to HP's support never solved the mistery, they kept
repeating "exact instructions" which just never worked. The problem
doesn't happen with XP. I'd say it's a needle in a barn and maybe the
only way would be to wipe out the disk and reinstall everything with
priority to the PC card. Since XP is OK I never bothered and have
lived up with it whenever I need Win98.
>The first screen freezes until I take the card out, then the boot
>up is normal and XP starts up. I can then insert the card again and it works
>and sounds great. I guess it's a bios issue? What do I do?
This won't fix the problem, but I had the same problem using an HP PC
Card CDRW writer in Windows 98: with the card in, the screen would
stay black with a blinking cursor. With the card removed, I could boot
Win98 and then insert the card and use the drive normally. Exaustive
e-mailing to HP's support never solved the mistery, they kept
repeating "exact instructions" which just never worked. The problem
doesn't happen with XP. I'd say it's a needle in a barn and maybe the
only way would be to wipe out the disk and reinstall everything with
priority to the PC card. Since XP is OK I never bothered and have
lived up with it whenever I need Win98.
>The first screen freezes until I take the card out, then the boot
>up is normal and XP starts up. I can then insert the card again and it works
>and sounds great. I guess it's a bios issue? What do I do?