PC keeps restarting on bootup

Hi

I have an old PC that was running Win98SE and I wanted to set up a wireless
LAN at home with my laptop. Unfortunately I couldn't get Win98 to work with
the WLAN card so I created a second primary partition and installed XP Home
on it (kept the original 98 partition for gaming purposes etc).

Everything seems to be OK, except that whenever I start up the machine from
'off' (i.e. not just restart) the PC reboots several times just after the XP
splash screen. It does this 3 or 4 times and then insists that one of my
disks needs checking for consistency - and then XP starts as normal.

There's nothing odd in my Autoexec or Config.sys, and the only error in
event viewer is to do with 'IPSec Services failed to get the complete list of
network interfaces on the machine'.

Any idea what might be happening? Do I need to go into the BIOS and set the
P'n'P OS option to 'no'?

Many thanks

Hi

The WinXP boot issue does not seems to relate to Wireless, you might want to
check it in the appropriate group.

As for Win98 and Wireless, there is No reason that Win98 would not work with
most Wireless cards.

However, having Win98 on a Laptop means most of the time a Laptop that is
rather old. Some newer PCMCIA cards do not work well with old PCMCIA buses.
In most cases I advice people with a few years old Laptops to look for older
simple Wireless cards. (As an example look for a card from Proxim Orinoco
previous line of PCMCAIA).

Jack (MVP-Networking).



"Witchseason" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> I have an old PC that was running Win98SE and I wanted to set up a
> wireless
> LAN at home with my laptop. Unfortunately I couldn't get Win98 to work
> with
> the WLAN card so I created a second primary partition and installed XP
> Home
> on it (kept the original 98 partition for gaming purposes etc).
>
> Everything seems to be OK, except that whenever I start up the machine
> from
> 'off' (i.e. not just restart) the PC reboots several times just after the
> XP
> splash screen. It does this 3 or 4 times and then insists that one of my
> disks needs checking for consistency - and then XP starts as normal.
>
> There's nothing odd in my Autoexec or Config.sys, and the only error in
> event viewer is to do with 'IPSec Services failed to get the complete list
> of
> network interfaces on the machine'.
>
> Any idea what might be happening? Do I need to go into the BIOS and set
> the
> P'n'P OS option to 'no'?
>
> Many thanks