disk failurer

[lynette]

I \'m working on win 98 and my system is down. When I try
to start it up it gives me these two errore 1782 Disk
Controller Failure and 3C301 Keyboard error. What does
this mean and how can I get around it to boot mysystem.

[SFB - KB3MM]

Were you working inside the box ?
Around the disk drive cables etc?

The 1782 error sounds like the computer cannot talk to the disk controller.


"lynette" > wrote in message
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> I \'m working on win 98 and my system is down. When I try
> to start it up it gives me these two errore 1782 Disk
> Controller Failure and 3C301 Keyboard error. What does
> this mean and how can I get around it to boot mysystem.

[Jeff Richards]

Very often, a series of errors like this indicates that BIOS settings are
corrupted, and that in turn suggests that the CMOS backup battery on the
motherboard has died.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"lynette" > wrote in message
...
>I \'m working on win 98 and my system is down. When I try
> to start it up it gives me these two errore 1782 Disk
> Controller Failure and 3C301 Keyboard error. What does
> this mean and how can I get around it to boot mysystem.