Matty wrote:
Just wiped the hard drive clean to do a complete clean install of Win98 SE.
All was going OK, everything seemed to be working etc. Then after restarting
and around the detecting new hardware part it went thw the windows 98 logo
screen and has just sort of froze ther. Nothing is happening. The reason we
formatted the hard drive in the first place was because exactly the same
thing was happening. Couldn't fix it so we went for the clean install. (It
would boot into safe mode before this happened) Has anyone got any ideas
where we go from here as I'm completley stumped.

Thanks for any help

Matt



Hi,

Start over; remove all unneeded hardware, leave just the essentials;
floppy, cd drive, video adapter, hard drive. Don't even install your
modem or NIC yet. Your sound card isn't needed at this point either. Get
Windows loaded, install whatever is needed to get an internet
connection, go to Windows update(and nowhere else)or use the Windows
Update CD if you have it(still go to Win update after running the CD).

Now start installing devices one at a time.

Order the Update CD for future use if you don't have it; it's free.
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/cd/order.asp

mm