I haven't posted here in a long time so either I learned a lot or you guys fixed my puter well.

I have major problems after formatting my PIII 450.

The format and reinstallation of W98 goes well .... in fact I've done it three times in the last day. Then all the updates and installation of messenger programs seems fine too. But during this process the sound system boot text changes and shows as having an invalid resource, but the sound system still seems to work ok. During the constant reboot process for installation of software the computer suddenly discovers new hardware (IRQ Steering for PCI) and says it loads the drivers ...... this is the critical point of the problem...this process then kills the registry .... I try to restore to a good registry but cannot as the system has just been formatted and there are no good back ups. I tried scanreg /fix ... this appears to work till windows is loading and it discovers new hardware again and the process repeats ... I am about ready to throw the puter out of the nearest window has anybody had this problem?


VP