cch wrote:
|In re-installing win98
|
How recently was the box working?
Have you been able to boot to DOS
to see if the real-time clock keeps good time over several hours?
Have you ever replaced the CMOS battery?

|it got to the "finish" step of "setting up hardware" and got stuck.
|I only have the mouse,keyboard,monitor and speaker connected to the computer.
|
CAUTION:
Use good static 
electricity techniques when poking around inside your box.

How much RAM have you got?  Is the RAM seated properly?

Are there any other expansion cards you can pull out?
(You *need* video, sound, and disk controller;
these are often part of the MoBo in computers that run Win32.)

Is your power supply bogging down because you added more drives to the chassis?

|In one trial I let it stand for an hour. It should not take that long should it?
|
Definately not.

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