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Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 6:16 pm
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Posted by Jane Lampie (1 messages posted)


Do you know which files do the BIOS check? Thanks!


On Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 3:39 pm, Joe Hepperle wrote:
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>Cecil:
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>If your Win95 installation was on a FAT16 partition, you would want to reformat that
>as a FAT32 partition. And then try to install WinME.
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>But, what is more likely is that...
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>You may have an Computer Manufacturer's OEM version of WinME. Those came with a slightly
>different PRECOPY1.CAB file which checks the Bios on your computer to make sure it
>is the same manufacturer's computer. In other words, if the Install files are originally
>from a DELL, then they may only work on a DELL. If from a GATEWAY, then they may
>only work on GATEWAY computer.
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>The files that do the bios check are inside the PRECOPY1.CAB installation file.
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>If you had a PRECOPY1.CAB file from a non-OEM version of WinME install, then it should
>work.
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>Joe Hepperle
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re: SU0173 message (Joe Hepperle: Sunday, October 28, 2007 at 3:39 pm)

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All messages in this thread [show all]
-SU0173 message (Cecil Cinense: Wed, Oct 3, 2007, 8:52 am)
*re: SU0173 message (Jacob6601: Sat, Oct 6, 2007, 8:05 pm)
-re: SU0173 message (Joe Hepperle: Sun, Oct 28, 2007, 3:39 pm)
*re: SU0173 message (Jane Lampie: Sun, Apr 20, 2008, 6:16 pm)
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