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| Thread ID: 26619 | 2002-11-01 01:59:00 | Win 98 installation problems | Chas2 (2406) | Press F1 |
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| 95014 | 2002-11-04 02:43:00 | Hi, I've had a little "Lazarus experience" myself recently tho with an older setup. Followed Susan's FAQ with some minor changes: 1. booted from W98SE boot disk (CDRom drivers not relevant) 2. fdisked and created primary & ext partitions (4GB x 2) 3. formatted both partitions 4. booted from W98SE boot disk with CDRom support 5. Xcopied CDRom \Win98 subdir to D:\Win98 6. booted from W98SE boot disk WITHOUT CDRom support 7. ran setup from D:\Win98 XCOPY was not in the EBD so had to manually copy these from the CAB files. You will need XCOPY32.MOD as well. Initially tried to do the reinstall from CDRom but sometimes setup gets confused with the drive letters after the first restart so decided to do it all from disk. Not sure what causes this. Also received a few page fault problems - I suspect the RAM but I could be wrong. Seems fine for now. |
Tom McB (832) | ||
| 95015 | 2002-11-04 03:47:00 | If you managed to extract all the .CAB files (why did you do this?), the CD drive is "probably" OK. I am still inclined to suspect memory. DOS and W3.1 don't "work" memory. They hardly use memory. Installing W98 is going to use all the available memory. If there's any fault in it, you are much more likely to hit it then. Proper memory testing is "difficult". It's damned near impossible. If you can borrow a 64MB stick (which would be worth "not very much" these days), that ought to be enough to install with. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 95016 | 2002-11-06 03:02:00 | Thanks Graham The memory is DDR SDRAM not so cheap, however I took the memory I had back to the supplier and told them I thought it was faulty, and they just handed me back the money. I have paid a bit more and got some that is gauranteed to work with mbo. I will ley you know what happens. |
Chas2 (2406) | ||
| 95017 | 2002-11-06 03:19:00 | Some good troubleshooting info for asus motherboards.. http://www.a7vtroubleshooting.com Have a good look in the Troubleshooting section about IDE controllers... Set your bios settings to be the conservative ones (some of the defaults are probably bad choices). Consider upgrading your bios. Consider that the motherboard may be faulty. Good Luck ;) |
gibler (49) | ||
| 95018 | 2002-11-07 02:55:00 | Thanks for all your suggestions. It turned out to be the RAM in the end. I changed to a more expensive brand and all the problems disappeared. It loaded win98 without a hitch. |
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