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re: setup stuck in "setting up hardware"
Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 10:06 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by cch
(34 messages posted)
It has been working until two days ago. The win98 has been running for 5 years. The
xp was installed 8 months ago and has been the default boot up system. There were
no hardware changes since day 1 except some usb devices which I have all unplugged.
On Friday, February 29, 2008 at 11:11 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>cch wrote:
>|In re-installing win98
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>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?
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>|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.
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>CAUTION:
>Use good static
>electricity techniques when poking around inside your box.
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>How much RAM have you got? Is the RAM seated properly?
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>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.)
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>Is your power supply bogging down because you added more drives to the chassis?
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>|In one trial I let it stand for an hour. It should not take that long should it?
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>Definately not.
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