I've just hit a problem an I *think* I can see the cause but can't see how to solve it!
On a machine running Win98SE, I've just upgraded the processor. Now when I boot into Win98 I get the message, "Windows has encountered an error accessing the system registry. Windows will restart and repair the registry for you", I press 'OK' and it reboots and runs a DOS looking "Microsoft Registry Checker" which says, "Windows found an error in your system files and restored a recent backup of the files to fix the problem".
This then takes me back to the beginning with, ""Windows has encountered an error..."!
My guess is that in the registry the key, HKLM\hardware\system\CentralProcessor\0 identifies the CPU installed and now it's different. Now matter how often I restore the registry it will always be different!
If I put the original processor back in, everything is back to normal again. Reinstalling Win98 is no help, presumably because it sees no need to replace the existing registry file.
It seems to me that I need to be able to tell it to reload its knowledge of the CPU but how can I do that? Any ideas gratefully received.
On a machine running Win98SE, I've just upgraded the processor. Now when I boot into Win98 I get the message, "Windows has encountered an error accessing the system registry. Windows will restart and repair the registry for you", I press 'OK' and it reboots and runs a DOS looking "Microsoft Registry Checker" which says, "Windows found an error in your system files and restored a recent backup of the files to fix the problem".
This then takes me back to the beginning with, ""Windows has encountered an error..."!
My guess is that in the registry the key, HKLM\hardware\system\CentralProcessor\0 identifies the CPU installed and now it's different. Now matter how often I restore the registry it will always be different!
If I put the original processor back in, everything is back to normal again. Reinstalling Win98 is no help, presumably because it sees no need to replace the existing registry file.
It seems to me that I need to be able to tell it to reload its knowledge of the CPU but how can I do that? Any ideas gratefully received.