A friend of mine has this problem with 98. Whenever he starts up, it gives him an error saying " Sync out of reach". He also has XP on the same system which boots up properly. Short of reloading the OS, whats the best way of resolving this problem?

He accesses the net thru a LAN connection on 98 which was problematic on XP most prolly due to the firewall, which i told him to disable.

This is looking to be Hard Drive error.. as "sync" usually has to do with disks and stuff.. I dont really know dude

I was going to guess that its a TC/IP thing with the DSL modem and Windows 98's configuration file for the stack and it couldnt sync with the modem. But Vampyric is probably right I dont know either lol I could try a Scan disk from inside XP to see about that ? I would also see if I could download the update for Windows 98's TC/IP stack and install that from a floppy ? you could also download a floppy disk of some HD Drive tools and run those to see if there is some sort of error there. Hmmm another thing is try to run a RAM tester on the system maybe the ram is bad and well Windows NT is better with failing hardware then Win98 so that might explain why you get an error in one and not the other.

Hmm, ive told him to check his HD, ill give him a RAM checker next and ask him to test it out.

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