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PC OS Install help needed!!!!
jsomethin:
Ok...so I just bought the following new for my MAME.
Motherboard
CPU
Memory
Hard Drive
DVD Drive
Floppy Drive
So....I boot up with a Windows98SE boot disk....fdisk the drive, then format it. Everything's fine.
Next, I get a Windows XP Install disk (which has worked before)....I boot off of that CD...and the install starts.....then at some point early on in the process, I get a kind of blue screen of death.
I replace the dvd drive, and the cable...same error.
I try a different Cd....same error
So..now I get a Windows98SE boot disk....when I try to boot from there with CDROM support, it can't "load the device driver".
I try a new CD Drive...same thing...new cable...same thing.
Now, the BIOS recognizes the drive....and I can boot from the drive with the XP CD..it just crashes at some point during install.
But when I try either a Win98SE boot disk and a WinNT boot disk, but neither OS will recognize either CD/DVD drive.
Any suggestions would be MOST helpful!!!!!
DaemonCollector:
Sounds like the controler on one side or the other for the CD is flakey...id check the CD against another motherboard or CD drive...
AmericanDemon:
That sounds like a memory issue. Has nothing to do with your disks.
However, you dont need to use a Win98 boot disk if you are gonna load WinXp. Just pop the disk in and it will load the OS install.
jsomethin:
--- Quote from: AmericanDemon on October 18, 2004, 10:14:58 pm ---That sounds like a memory issue. Has nothing to do with your disks.
However, you dont need to use a Win98 boot disk if you are gonna load WinXp. Just pop the disk in and it will load the OS install.
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Yeah, I tried that....that's when I consistently get a 'blue screen of death'
jsomethin:
--- Quote from: DaemonCollector on October 18, 2004, 10:14:55 pm ---Sounds like the controler on one side or the other for the CD is flakey...id check the CD against another motherboard or CD drive...
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I've tried two different CD drives.....same thing on both...and one of them was pulled from a working pc