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Ok. my father has a really old 400mhz 256mb PC100 ram and a socket 370 mobo/cpu.
He was interested in upgrading so i did it for him. I got him a 2.26 P4 478 CPU with stick of 256 PC2700 Ram.
I used some of my older parts that were left overs after i had did some upgrades. Included was: 400w PW, a P4SD-LA mobo, and a CD-RW drive. I hooked and built it all up completely. He runs windows 98.. and only has a 4Gb HDD, so XP is out of the question.
ok..Problem time:
Windows 98 boots up fine and goes through the loading screen.. then says:
"Hardware check configmg. Windows safetly error. Please Restart your
computer."
The computer loads fine into safe mode.. goes right into desktop and windows. I'm thinking there may be some older hardware that is still "installed" on his system that we took out could be causing some conflicts. Just wondering what you all think.
I have the win 98 CD.. so may just have to reinstall that and wipe everything may just fix it?
You probably need to re-install the operating system. I would say that will be just fine.
Since the system loads in safe mode, I would first perform an "Upgrade" of the OS over itself. Just put the Win98 CD in the Rom and set your bios to boot from CD and choose "Upgrade". If this doesn't work then a fresh install may be the route.
R
nuke the hard drive and do a fresh install.
DeepScience
07-13-05, 04:28 PM
Get a new HDD and make it the primary drive. Install XP.
I would puchase a new HDD and OS. Hard Drives are cheap these days around $1.50 - $2.00 per GB.
it looks like we have a little problem with using windows XP. windows 98 doesnt support CPU processors over 2.1Ghz.. wow we have a 2.26.. how lucky of us.
DeepScience
07-14-05, 12:16 AM
it looks like we have a little problem with using windows XP. windows 98 doesnt support CPU processors over 2.1Ghz.. wow we have a 2.26.. how lucky of us.
Do you mean you have a problem with Win98 not WinXP?
I think he means that he can't upgrade to XP because 98SE doesn't support his too fast CPU. Ritek can you underclock that CPU? Is that a 533 FSB CPU? If it is and you can turn the FSB back to 100 you could make that chip a 1700Mhz CPU and then 98SE would let you upgrade your OS! In fact after playing with the calculator, that has to be a 533 CPU, clock that baby down!
orion456
07-14-05, 02:31 AM
Windows 98 boots up fine and goes through the loading screen..
First boot into DOS and do a scandisk to be sure the HD is ok.
Win98 hates new configurations, especially video stuff. Boot into safe mode and set the video card back to 640x480 VGA. Reboot. If it boots correctly you can then change the video mode back once you are in windows.
If that doesn't work, the boot into windows using F8 and step thru the boot up til you find what doesn't load properly. Then eliminate that device and boot again...repeat as necessary.
As travis has said, underclock your cpu. Windows se should then read it as 1700mhz or so. Go from there.
Milkman
07-14-05, 03:03 PM
I believe if you delete the registry entries from Enum that windows will be forced to find the Hardware over and prompt for the New drivers, enum holds the Hardware config, It's been awhile since I did it but I seem to remember it working.
-Milkman
yes, its 533 fsb with a multiplier of 17. BUT the motherboard (P4SD-LA) doesnt support OC'ing. (Thats why i upgraded to a IC7-G and now he has my P4SD-LA). Microsoft has some kind of "fix" that will allow a CPU of 2.1 or higher to work with win98. Lets hope it works.
I believe if you delete the registry entries from Enum that windows will be forced to find the Hardware over and prompt for the New drivers, enum holds the Hardware config, It's been awhile since I did it but I seem to remember it working.
-Milkman
what do you mean "enum"
Backup plan:
buy bigger harddrive to be able to put a fresh copy of winxp on it.
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