In re-installing win98 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. In one trial I let it stand for an hour. It should not take that long should it?

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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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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
>|
>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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cch wrote:
|It has been working until two days ago.
|The win98 has been running for 5 years.
|The xp...

Ah.  You've been hiding cards behind your back.
This is the first we've heard about XP on this box.
If you install Win98 **after** XP, you need a 3rd-party boot manager.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1027037440

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Playing with F8/F11 I was able to start win98 in safe mode, but rebooting in normal mode it would get stuck in "setup" again. Is there a way to skip the setup process? Registry, maybe?


On Saturday, March 1, 2008 at 10:40 am, gewg_ wrote:
>cch wrote:
>|It has been working until two days ago.
>|The win98 has been running for 5 years.
>|The xp...
>
>Ah. You've been hiding cards behind your back.
>This is the first we've heard about XP on this box.
>If you install Win98 **after** XP, you need a 3rd-party boot manager.
>http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1027037440

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The "mouse,keyboard,monitor and speaker" are all used in safe mode. You have something 
else connected, and my experience tells me it is the modem or sound card. You can 
try disabling in BIOS before actually pulling the cards. Setup might cough with a 
newer optical drive, but I doubt it.

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This sounds like something that happened to me. I have Win98 and Win2K.

A couple times in the past I refreshed Win98 with a reinstall directly over the old system. That fixed some damaged functioning that had been at the quirky level of seriousness.

Then I went to dual boot and tried again. I cannot conclude that this was the cause of the problem.

Part of the problem seemed to be that I had not completely uninstalled and deleted the antivirus, AVG. But that still was not enough.

So I went to DOS and renamed C:\WINDOWS to C:\WINDOWS0. Then the reinstall worked and I copied some stuff (like wallpapers) over from WINDOWS0 and deleted it.

I can't tell if that is your problem or the solution to it because I am only guessing at some of the details of your setup.

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moving windows to windows0 works for me too. I was able to re-install win98 and then upgrade to xp. I did not do anything to the hard disks except swapped the power supply to the disks and now I don't see any HDD error on boot up. Thanks.


On Saturday, March 8, 2008 at 6:47 pm, dhm wrote:
>
>This sounds like something that happened to me. I have Win98 and Win2K.
>

>A couple times in the past I refreshed Win98 with a reinstall directly over the old
>system. That fixed some damaged functioning that had been at the quirky level of
>seriousness.
>

>Then I went to dual boot and tried again. I cannot conclude that this was the cause
>of the problem.
>

>Part of the problem seemed to be that I had not completely uninstalled and deleted
>the antivirus, AVG. But that still was not enough.
>

>So I went to DOS and renamed C:\WINDOWS to C:\WINDOWS0. Then the reinstall
>worked and I copied some stuff (like wallpapers) over from WINDOWS0 and deleted it.
>

>I can't tell if that is your problem or the solution to it because I am only guessing
>at some of the details of your setup.
>

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