Unsuccessful Bootup After Successful Installation

I am trying to install 98SE OEM on a pentium D and intel motherboard using a
945 chipset so that I can upgrade to XP pro. The 98SE install was successful
but upon rebooting, an insufficient memory to load windows message appears
and the bootup ends. My system has 1GB of RAM, clearly enough for 98SE. I
checked the operating systems that the motherboard has been tested with and
XP was the only OS listed. Do I assume that my motherboard is not backwards
compatible with previous versions of windows? I tried installing the XP
upgrade afterwards but the install went nowhere. Any workarounds are
appreciated.

See : http://aumha.org/win4/a/memmgmt.htm

Specifically Exception No. 2.

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I am trying to install 98SE OEM on a pentium D and intel motherboard using
a
945 chipset so that I can upgrade to XP pro. The 98SE install was
successful
but upon rebooting, an insufficient memory to load windows message appears
and the bootup ends. My system has 1GB of RAM, clearly enough for 98SE. I
checked the operating systems that the motherboard has been tested with
and
XP was the only OS listed. Do I assume that my motherboard is not
backwards
compatible with previous versions of windows? I tried installing the XP
upgrade afterwards but the install went nowhere. Any workarounds are
appreciated.

From: "Section 9" Section

| I am trying to install 98SE OEM on a pentium D and intel motherboard using a
| 945 chipset so that I can upgrade to XP pro. The 98SE install was successful
| but upon rebooting, an insufficient memory to load windows message appears
| and the bootup ends. My system has 1GB of RAM, clearly enough for 98SE. I
| checked the operating systems that the motherboard has been tested with and
| XP was the only OS listed. Do I assume that my motherboard is not backwards
| compatible with previous versions of windows? I tried installing the XP
| upgrade afterwards but the install went nowhere. Any workarounds are
| appreciated.

The operation was a success however, the patient died :-(

Win9x/ME has problems with RAM greater than 512MB (half a gigabyte). That's your problem.


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From: "Section 9" Section

| I am trying to install 98SE OEM on a pentium D and intel motherboard using a
| 945 chipset so that I can upgrade to XP pro. The 98SE install was successful

If it was an empty Volume C / HardDiskDrive, reformat and install WinXP
directly.
You should not need to install the earlier OS first, you will be asked
by the WinXP installer for proof that you have it and do so by inserting
the Win98 CD.

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From: "Section 9" Section

| I am trying to install 98SE OEM on a pentium D and intel motherboard using a
| 945 chipset so that I can upgrade to XP pro. The 98SE install was successful

If it was an empty Volume C / HardDiskDrive, reformat and install WinXP
directly.
You should not need to install the earlier OS first, you will be asked
by the WinXP installer for proof that you have it and do so by inserting
the Win98 CD.

I reformatted volume C and booted up with the 2002 XP upgrade CD. I hit
enter after receiving the message Press Any Key to Boot from the CD... The
screen goes blank but nothing else happens. I can read the CD with no problem
on my current PC. Is this the message that normally comes up?


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From: "Section 9" Section

| I am trying to install 98SE OEM on a pentium D and intel motherboard using a
| 945 chipset so that I can upgrade to XP pro. The 98SE install was successful

If it was an empty Volume C / HardDiskDrive, reformat and install WinXP
directly.
You should not need to install the earlier OS first, you will be asked
by the WinXP installer for proof that you have it and do so by inserting
the Win98 CD.

I reformatted volume C and booted up with the 2002 XP upgrade CD. I hit
enter after receiving the message Press Any Key to Boot from the CD... The
screen goes blank but nothing else happens. I can read the CD with no problem
on my current PC. Is this the message that normally comes up?

It's a normal message and event for some BIOSs, but it's not desirable that it didn't boot .
Is this a non-OEM CD? Some CDROM drives just won't boot.

The following link should help. You'll need 6 floppies.

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310994

This is now a question for a Win2K group, not this one.

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"Section 9" wrote in message
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"... et al." wrote:

From: "Section 9" Section

| I am trying to install 98SE OEM on a pentium D and intel motherboard
using a
| 945 chipset so that I can upgrade to XP pro. The 98SE install was
successful

If it was an empty Volume C / HardDiskDrive, reformat and install WinXP
directly.
You should not need to install the earlier OS first, you will be asked
by the WinXP installer for proof that you have it and do so by inserting
the Win98 CD.

I reformatted volume C and booted up with the 2002 XP upgrade CD. I hit
enter after receiving the message Press Any Key to Boot from the CD... The
screen goes blank but nothing else happens. I can read the CD with no
problem
on my current PC. Is this the message that normally comes up?


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From: "Gary S. Terhune"

| This is now a question for a Win2K group, not this one.
|
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| MS-MVP Shell/User
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Gary:

I think you mean WinXP ;-)

i.e., microsoft.public.windowsxp.general


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Yeah, the 2002 threw me, g.

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"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
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From: "Gary S. Terhune"

| This is now a question for a Win2K group, not this one.
|
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| Gary S. Terhune
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Gary:

I think you mean WinXP ;-)

i.e., microsoft.public.windowsxp.general


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Section 9 wrote:

"... et al." wrote:

From: "Section 9" Section

| I am trying to install 98SE OEM on a pentium D and intel motherboard using a
| 945 chipset so that I can upgrade to XP pro. The 98SE install was successful

If it was an empty Volume C / HardDiskDrive, reformat and install WinXP
directly.
You should not need to install the earlier OS first, you will be asked
by the WinXP installer for proof that you have it and do so by inserting
the Win98 CD.

I reformatted volume C and booted up with the 2002 XP upgrade CD. I hit
enter after receiving the message Press Any Key to Boot from the CD... The
screen goes blank but nothing else happens. I can read the CD with no problem
on my current PC. Is this the message that normally comes up?

Hi, my earlier suggestion was because it would have become a cleaner
WinXP installation without any Win98 leftoverfiles ... if it had worked.
I have, helping a person, used a Win98SE Upgrade CD (or perhaps an
'Update CD') and showed the installer a CD with an earlier OS version as
proof and that went well. I have only read that one could do the same
with a WinXP Upgrade CD.

However, just after my previous post i read a discussion between Stan
Brown & Bruce Chambers[1] that casts some doubt over that. Stan is
still, i checked a few minutes ago, without confirmation. And if the
WinXP Upgrade CD isn't even bootable perhaps it's even less likely.

So perhaps it's easier to open the computercase and remove some RAM
cards (assuming it's not a single 1 GB RAM card in your machine) while
installing Win98 and updating to WinXP.

But if you still want to try to get a clean WinXP installation, and also
test if the Upgrade CD accepts the a Win98 CD as qualifying media,
CQuirke[2] describes a way to start the WinXP installation from a
Boot-floppy with CD support, by executing '[CD]:\i386\WinNT.exe' (with
some switches), that might work for you.

The posts i reference, can be found by typing in the Message ID in
Advanced Search at Google Groups[3]


References:

[1]
in 'microsoft.public.windowsxp.general'
with Subject: 'XP Activation, Change Code'

[2]
in 'microsoft.public.windowsxp.general'
with subject: 'xp install from dos'

[3] http://www.google.com/advanced_group_search?hl=en


PS. Be aware of the differences between NTFS and FAT when you format,
depending on your future needs (for example to be able to access the
volumes from a boot-floppy).

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