re: Win98 Install Error
Saturday, January 24, 2004 at 6:29 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Chester
(1 messages posted)
Duffman,
Sounds excactly like the problem I am having. Running a new Shuttle ak38/ak39N MB,
New 256 DDR, and New Seagate 80GB Hard drive. I suspect the Ram as the cause. HAs
anyone replied to your post yet? Microscope 2000 Diagnostics runs clean on the motherboard
and 2-3 passes with the memory. I am going to do more extensive tests. Will let
you no know when I find out.
On Thursday, January 1, 2004 at 3:56 pm, Duffman wrote:
>I just put together a new computer a few days ago and for some reason I still have
>not been able to get it to work (putting computers together and getting them to
work
>isn't that hard for me, but I have honestly spent the past 3 days trying to get
this
>to work!).
>
>1) I installed win98 a couple days ago, got it to work, copied some things over
from
>another harddrive, then went to bed. When I woke up I went to install the game Call
>of Duty and the computer would just keep restarting (so I went to step by step and
>my himen.sys file or whatever was apparently damaged or something, and after replacing
>it it still didn't work). So I repartitioned/formated etc... I went into dos and
>I copy d:\win98 c:\windows\options\cabs , everything copied fine. So I went into
>the cabs folder and ran SETUP. hit enter after that and it just freezes (can onyl
>ctrl alt del nothing else). I try SETUP from the d:\, goes further but then crashes
>after the scandisk and says : Standard mode : Invalid DPMI return from 040F:5F7A
>(in dos).
>
>2) I tried to install win200 pro but when I run setup and get to the part where
I
>have to hit f8 to agree to the terms it wno't work (esc and all that still works
>but it won't let me agree).
>
>Anyways, ANYONE HAVE ANY IDEA WHATS GOING ON? It just really bugs me because it
was
>working fine last night! I have 512 ram, a crappy ati raedeon 9200 atlantis 128meg
>card, maxtor 80 gig HD, a LG cdrw, and my MB is a A7V8X-X.
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