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So I bought an old computer at a garage sale. It has windows 98 plus on it. Ive been trying to get it up and running. So far, it boots into safe mode perfectly fine. However, if I try to start it up regularly, during the windows loading screen, it will blink, and then stop loading. The CD drive doesn't work, and since its in safe mode, I wouldn't have access to put in a flash drive or the internet, so any fix would have to fit on a floppy. Any idea what it could be?
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There's no way to fix that, sorry :( . Normally I would recommend checking the event viewer, but 98 doesn't have that feature. In fact, there aren't very many diagnostic tools in 98 at all, which makes it almost impossible to fix any problem not automatically fixed by a reboot. My recommendation to you is to buy a cd-rom drive(very cheap) and install ubuntu or xubuntu(xubuntu for a low end PC, 512MB RAM or less):
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These are gnu/linux distributions, so windows programs won't run on them, but it's the only modern OS that can run on a 98 PC and is fairly user-friendly. You'll be able to use Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird right out of the box, and it's easy to install thousands of programs using the included package manager. I see from looking at your other questions(which are very interesting, by the way) that you have used linux already, so you should have no trouble.
Good luck!
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