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OSR2 setup hangs after first reboot

Actually, I have one major problem. My cousin has i120 and CMOS battery
ran out. He changed battery, but after that he couldn't load Windows
except in safe mode. His Win instalation was bad anyway so we decided to
format HD (backed up imoratant data first) and install OSR2. BUT ....
After instalation procedure is finished Windows asks you to click finish
and to restart your comp... right? After that we'we got Starting Win95 for
the ...
message, but after major HD activity (10 sec uninterupted noise) Win just
blocks. ctrl+alt+del wont't help. I can restart Win in safe mode but
I can't restart them normaly.

I tried installing OSR2 4K, 32K cluster, Win95 (950 - normal) all the
same. Before this happened I instaled Win95 on his computer twice,
not OSR2 but they worked just fine.

I think he had specific BIOS setup, after it was lost, there's
something preventing some part (probably HD) from working normaly.

This is detail desc. of his machine:

CPU: i120
RAM: 16 MB 70 ns (think it's normal - not EDO)
Chipset: i430FX (03/11/96-i430FX-2A59CJ1DC-00)
MB: Jet V.656C M1 (3-11-1996)
BIOS: Award v 4.50PG + P'nP ext. v 1.0
Video: S3 Trio64V+ (1.01-05)
HD: WDC AC31600H (configured as primary master and detected by MB as 1642
MB PIO4)
CD: BTC CD-ROM 6X (BCD639 FOHP 1.0) (configured as sec. master BUT not
detected)
SOUND: MiroFM 10
Monitor: ADI 5V+ (not so importanat now it's conected to my Philips 17")
Mouse: Genius 3 buttons

Thnx.

Damir
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DPavusin: Try Bogey's suggested fix, if it works, accept the answer, if it doesn't, reject it. If it doesn't work, post your results and I will walk you through the BIOS setup for the Jet MB.
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Dennis
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I have resolved my problem!

I had BIOS problem as I supposed, not driver problem as bogey supposed. I said that after battery ran out I couldn't restart Win95.
Before this problem ocured I have already instaled Win95 on this computer without any problems.. so my idea was that there must ne something wrong with the BIOS settings.

Solution:

I loaded bios defaults and tried Win safe mode. Then I removed all devices bogey sugested I should.
 After removing COM ports I succesfully restarted win95. Then I turned all the other devices on.
Problem was in internal modem which was using COM2. By default MB assigns COM2 so there was address conflict which prevented Win95 from booting normaly.

This must be MotherBoard specific problem, because I have TX board with COM2 assigned to both modem and port without problems (that's the reason I wasn't looking here in the first place).

I think bogey gave me good solution, not excellent because he had not supposed BIOS problem. Anyway with his help I resolved this problem.

Thnx.

Damir

Hope to work with you in the future too.