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re: Desperately need help...
Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 3:03 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by phantom
(5578 messages posted)
way too much memory. There is a work around at Microsoft Support. Just search their
knowledge base on 1gig of memory for 98.
On Thursday, September 15, 2005 at 7:22 am, Xaviar Craig wrote:
>Ok recently I have built a new computer and everything seemed to be working fine.
>here is the setup:
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>CPU: AMD sempron64 2500+ |
>Mobo: ABIT NV8 |
>Mem: Mushkin 1024MB (512 2X) Redline XP3500 (timings 2-2-2-5) |
>Vid card: PCI-express 16X powercolor X800GT 256mb |
>PSU: Antec TRUEBLUE480 |
>HD(s)All hardrives are using a EIDE to SATA converter:
>C: Maxtor 120GB 8mb buffer 7.2K rpm EIDE (1 partion: FAT32) |
>D: Maxtor 120GB 8mb buffer 7.2K rpm EIDE (1 partion: FAT32) |
>E: Maxtor 200GB 8mb buffer 7.2K rpm EIDE (1 partion: FAT32) |
>Soundcard: Soundblaster LIVE 5.1 |
>disk drives:
>A: 1.44mb 3.5 inch floppy |
>B: 1.2mb 5.25 inch floppy |
>F: IDE DVD+-RW 8X4X16X |
>G: IDE 250MBZIP |
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>So, I popped in my win98 disk and it booted no real problems, it took about a minute
>to first install the CD-rom driver(which aint really right...). Also once I got
into
>setup it took a while to examine my harddrive(s) (to see if there was enough space),
>like a 3 minutes(it took less than 30 seconds on my old setup with the same harddrives).
>Other than that it copied all the files in record time(4 minutes! w007).
>However when I had to restart my computer and it brought up the "windows 98" loading
>screen the bar at the bottom was moving smoothly for about 3 seconds and then it
>started moving like a centimeter every other second. It loaded once after 8 minutes
>and was working... well it was running really jerky, but other than that it was
running
>flawless. After I restarted it it did the same thing only it didnt load, even after
>40 minutes. The bar at the bottom of the loading screen was still jerking little
>by little every so often.
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>At first I thought it was faulty memory or a faulty memory controller, but since
>Windows 2K, XP, and server 2003 installed flawless(and in record time) that idea
>went down the drain rather fast.
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>Yes I did install windows while my harddrives were on the SATA channels(IDE to SATA
>converters). HOWEVER to cancel out the idea that it was the SATA's fault, i unpluged
>all SATA devices and popped in an old 10GB IDE Drive.
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>There was no problems or lagging during setup like with my larger EIDE drives(That
>I had setup as SATA devices) but it did install slower. Once again as I restarted
>my computer, the win98 loading screen came up, this time it the bar ran smooth for
>about 5 seconds and gradually became choppy as it tryed to load... I got in the
first
>time after roughly 15 minutes, however once I restarted(no I didnt install ANYTHING{before
>anyone suggestes that!}) it did the same thing at the loading screen and didnt completely
>load after 45 minutes.
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>ANY help is appreciated!
>
>Thank you in advanced.
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