[Timbob505]

Hey guys, I'm trying to repair our Associate Pastor's computer, but it is not playing along! First, here are the system specs that I am sure of:
Win98 se
Novell Netware 4.1
Cel 400A
Intel 440bx AGP
Intel 740 AGP graphics card
256MB PC100
6GB HD

When I first looked at it, the computer would not boot to a usable state. There were various registry and startup errors that would flash, Novell would crash and the system wouldn't do anything. I tried to re-install Windows, but it took way too long - time remaining was around 92 minutes - longer than it takes on a 300Mhz system with 32MB of ram! I quit the installation and decided to format. I saved what files I could and then did a good ole' fdisk and format, then I proceeded to install win98se again. This time, the install went fine with no problems. I got the network card installed and I got the drivers for the video working and after a reboot, I installed the Netware Client. The first install came up with errors, so I was forced to re-install. Everything worked - once. Now, everytime I reboot, I get this error

Quote:

Windows encountered an error accessing the system registry.

Windows will now restart and repair the registry for you.

It resets and then says the same thing...everytime. I restarted in dos mode and ran scanreg /fix and it said that the registry was repaired and to restart the computer. I did that and again I got the same above error message. Any ideas? Could it be bad memory or a bad Hard drive? Unfortunately, I don't have an extra HD to test it with. I am going to try one more format and re-install before I suggest the church invest in another HD. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Timbob