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Windows98 freezes during install. Can't install at all

Asked by totsubo in Windows 98 Operating System

Tags: crashes, alt, detecting

Sorry to make this question so long but I figure I should give you all the information I have in order to get the best possible answer. Read at the bottom if you want my current state of affairs and problem

I decided to build my own system so I bought all the parts and put them together. Her'e a list of what I have:

Abit BE6-II v1.2 motherboard
Celeron 566, socket adapter and HSF
256 Mb RAM (1 DIMM)
Matrox G400 video card
LAN card
Creative SB sound card
20 Gb Fujistsu 7200 RPM HD
Creative 10x/40x DVD player
Plextor 12/12/32A CDR-RW

Ok ... after much trouble I got all the parts in the right place. Then after a few false starts I got the machine to boot up. Then I tried installing windows98.

Low and behold it worked! Then I tired getting smart and overclocked my CPU to 100 Hz FSB and 1.65V giving me an 850 MHz CPU.

This is when I started having problems. The video wasn't working and I kept getting booted up in safe mode. So I removed the video drivers, re-installed some newer ones and booted up at 566 MHz. Everything went fine.

Went back to 850 MHz.

Then I wanted to test out my new machine so I installed a game: Ultima IX. Well ... the install crashed. So I again rebooted at 566 and re-installed thegame. No problem. Even played it at 566 for a few minutes.

So back to 850 MHz. Computer boots up fine, game crashes after starting. Keep trying ... game keeps crashing ....

Finally the computer boots up and all I get is a background screen and nothing else. If I press CTRL-ALT-DEL I get the task manager but no tasks are listed. If I press shutdown, after a while I get "this task is not responding". I couldn't get win98 booted at all afetr 5 tries.

** Problem **

I am re-installing win98 at 566 MHz. I copied the who;e CD to my C: drive and install from there. The installation goes fine until it starts detecting PnP devices. After a while it freezes. If I restart the computer everything seems fine except that I get the win98 installation background (blue screen), my mouse works but the installation doesn't pick up where it left off from!

I've tried to re-install win98 four times and always the same problem. What can I do!?

Jc

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