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| Thread ID: 41285 | 2004-01-05 22:50:00 | Computer freezes when installing win98/95 | george12 (7) | Press F1 |
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| 205556 | 2004-01-05 22:50:00 | When I try to install Win98 on my computer, i always freezes at exactly the same place, the loading setup bit, just as it has got into it's 'windowsy' enviroment for installing. In 95 setup, it hangs in the license agreement. The cursor stops flashing, and the keyboard does nothing. It doesn't crash in dos at all. Is this hardware or software? Can anybody help? | george12 (7) | ||
| 205557 | 2004-01-05 23:12:00 | it could be the cd rom drive spinning to slowly also try adding more ram and another processor |
Megaman (344) | ||
| 205558 | 2004-01-05 23:31:00 | What are your system spec's. What versions of 95 and 98 respectively are you trying to install? It could be that they are hanging for different reasons. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 205559 | 2004-01-06 01:00:00 | you could also try copying the cab files from the cd rom to the hard disk and install from the hard disk in the case of win95 anything that is typed within " " should be typed at the command prompt 1. boot with 98 boot disk or a boot disk that will enable you to access the cdrom drive 2. enter "format c:" once format complete enter "c:" enter "md win95" enter "cd win95" enter "copy G:\Win95\*.*" where g: is is the drive assignment for your cdrom drive, change this (g) if its not enter "Dir setup.exe" (confirms setup.exe is there) enter "setup" (runs the setup exercutable for the Operating System) the same can be done for win98 just change the 95 to 98 |
beama (111) | ||
| 205560 | 2004-01-07 03:43:00 | Ok, my board is an AT socket 7 with a P133 chip (fan&heatsink), and 64MB of good memory. I have tried installing Win98 Upgrade, and failing that, Win95b. Both these are working. The HDD is 413MB (cringe), I am getting a bigger one soon. My CD drive I installed from is a 48X CyberDrive CD-ROM from Dick Smith which works great. I have a PCI Cirrus Logic graphics card and two PCI network cards, which I will remove today to eliminate them as the cause of the fault. The motherboard is newly aquired and in the case of an old 486/100. | george12 (7) | ||
| 205561 | 2004-01-07 03:46:00 | PS: I have tried both installing straight from CD and copying the files over. Both have the same effect. My CD is slightly scratched in places, but it works fine in every other computer I try, so I don't think it is the problem. | george12 (7) | ||
| 205562 | 2004-01-07 04:03:00 | I would certainly remove those network cards. They are quite likely to cause problems (especially if there are two of them). I would usually suspect memory, because installing OSs is the best memory test there is, but that gives errors. Hanging is often caused by interrupt problems. If it doesn't go with those cards out, try knocking down the clock to 120 MHz. But I suspect you will get a successful load without the cards. :D |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 205563 | 2004-01-07 04:17:00 | The worst of my fears have been killed. It was either the HDD or the NICs. (I swapped the HDD and took out the NICs. Now it seems to work fine. It's now copying the Win98 files. I got alerted to the HDD when i got a message, "Data Error reading drive C, Abort Retry Fail". Thanks for your help. | george12 (7) | ||
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