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New PC, ME with old BIOS
there is no I.E. on the drive,
By the way Internet Explorer is present on the system as it is a component part of Win Me. I assume therefore you mean that it has never been updated to IE6, something I feel you should do as a matter of urgency once you have recovered your system. -- Mike Maltby William B. Lurie wrote: Mike, there is no I.E. on the drive, and no Media Player 9. Does that make the reinstall more practical? |
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Bill asked :-
BTW...this is a long thread; should I start a new one? No! - continue with this one. But you may wish to snip some of it - see below. In the meantime :- USB Camera, Printer, etc., etc., Ah! - there's your likely conflicts! especially if they are still connected. You MUST disconnect them at this stage and re-install them later according to the device manufacturers instructions. Again, are the USB ports associated the "PCI Multimedia Device" ? If so, you'll have to pull that card (assuming its a card) and install it later according to the manufacturers instructions. As with all USB devices, not all 'simply plug'n'play' first time. Some often need to be 'conditioned' as per the user handbook before they can start to be 'hot swapped'. And if its a PCI to USB adapter card, you certainly will need to read the installation instructions and install the accompanying drivers. BTW - there's no specific need at this stage to remove programs, but removing printers etc. will need to be done in due course. But you must try to start with minimal hardware connected and connect one item at a time to see if you hit any obstacles. Thanks for giving me good advice...and courage. I'm sure that on behalf of others who have also contributed, you're most welcome. You'll get there!! Mart "William B. Lurie" wrote in message ... Well, Mart, I got bold and (laboriously) opened all of the condensed categories and removed all that it would allow me to. There were four under Primary and Secondary IDE Disk Controllers that it wouldn't let me remove, no matter what I tried, so I just proceeded from there. I'm a little confused as to what exactly I did next, but I believe it allowed me to Restart, F8 to Normal Mode, at least once. I then used Add/Remove to get rid of old programs, and obsolete printers, and I finally got myself to a cleaner system.........only now I hang at the dash prompt again. But now I'm not scared any more, and I'm going to unplug the USB (new) printer and web camera, and go back and remove all devices again. Maybe I'll get to where it will boot Normal again. Incidentally, at one point it asked for the CD for installing something I don't need (I forget what) and I didn't bother with it. Thanks for giving me good advice...and courage. BTW...this is a long thread; should I start a new one? snipped |
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And - It looks like we've reverted to the intermittent phantom
Mart, I'm finding the NGs a bit slow sometimes taking an age to download the headers. As for phantoms, I'm seeing an intermittent one in Win Me Printing that's been around now for two or three weeks but am not seeing one in this NG. A problem that is Microsoft's fault as they have not implemented the RFC correctly in Outlook Express since they take the article count as 100% correct between the high and low water marks on the server whereas the RFC states that this should be taken as an approx count only. One known cause of a problem can be a cancelled message which no longer exists but had a message number allocated. Other news readers such as Forte Agent don't have this problem. Not that I like Agent although I gather it is better now than it used to be. -- Mike Maltby Mart wrote: I would most strongly concur with you Mike, overinstalling WinMe on itself after undertaking (most of, if not) all of the WinMe Updates is a disaster waiting to happen - BTDT. Or "Version Soup" - as Noel Paton so eloquently described it. But in the case of this particular thread, as you rightly pointed out earlier "Note that removing all entries in Dev.Man is standard procedure whenever a system disk is moved to new hardware regardless of the operating system in use. In this respect Win Me is no different from either Win 98, W2K or XP." And - It looks like we've reverted to the intermittent phantom "1 message not downloaded" phenomenon on this News Group which I've not seen for some time g Was it this same NG we saw it happening last time? |
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Hi Mike,
Thanks for the update. The NG seems to have behaved itself so far today - but then it's early g In the meantime, I'm away for the rest of the day/evening so I'm sure you'll guide and oversee Bill on the next part of his quest g Mart "Mike M" wrote in message ... And - It looks like we've reverted to the intermittent phantom Mart, I'm finding the NGs a bit slow sometimes taking an age to download the headers. As for phantoms, I'm seeing an intermittent one in Win Me Printing that's been around now for two or three weeks but am not seeing one in this NG. A problem that is Microsoft's fault as they have not implemented the RFC correctly in Outlook Express since they take the article count as 100% correct between the high and low water marks on the server whereas the RFC states that this should be taken as an approx count only. One known cause of a problem can be a cancelled message which no longer exists but had a message number allocated. Other news readers such as Forte Agent don't have this problem. Not that I like Agent although I gather it is better now than it used to be. -- Mike Maltby snipped |
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Latest progress: I've gone around 3 times now, and
each time I remove more. I have not yet pulled the USB connectors for webcam, and of course I can't pull the monitor USB plug. On next pass I'll pull the webcam (it isn't easy to identify and get at). And also the Ethernet connection, which I do not intend to use with this ME system. But for now, maybe you'd care to advise about the self- installation of 5 files that it can't find, and I can't supply. It wants to install hidclass.sys hidpause.sys hidvkc.sys mouse.drv msmon.vxd from C:\windows\options\cabs and it doesn't find them, and I can't supply them because, even when I manage to boot to Safe Mode, it doesn't see my CD drive, so I can't lead it to the CD. That in itself requires some advice....... Over to you, Mike...... William B. Lurie wrote: Thanks, Ron. The CD that I have is what I used years ago, an "upgrade" from 98 to M.E. And there's no XP or Vista involved here. Ron Martell wrote: "William B. Lurie" wrote: That's the best I can describe it. I have a hard drive from my old PC with ME on it. It won't boot in Normal Mode in my new PC, I suspect because it was mad with a different BIOS. However, it boots just fine in Safe Mode. Is there a way to get around this? (I hope I made it clear enough). Thanks. If you have an installation CD for the Windows Me then the best way to resolve these issues is to boot with that CD and do a "Repair Install" of Windows Me. These instructions are for Windows XP but the procedure for Vista is pretty well the same. http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.html Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada |
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Until you remove everything from Dev.Man. then I'm sorry but you are
wasting both your and our time. You should also have NOTHING whatsoever connected to the box other than keyboard and mouse whilst trying to get the old hard disk up and running, least of all any external usb devices. All the more so if these various devices were not connected to the system whose hard disk you are now using. Over to you, Mike...... I'm sorry but not really much point until you follow the earlier advice but I'll try. If you are being asked for files that are part of the basic Win Me operating system such as those you mention either insert your Win Me CD or, perhaps better, ensure that the registry is correctly pointing to the location where these files are stored on your hard disk which will be usually be either C:\Windows\Options\Install or C:\Windows\Options\Cabs, which depending on the original media used to install the system, Microsoft media uses the ..\Install folder whilst OEM media normally uses the ..\Cabs folder. Note however that some OEM manufacturers, for reasons unknown, chose to place the Win Me cab set in different locations, sometimes even on a different partition (nothing wrong with that) but then failed to enter the correct location in the registry which was a cardinal sin and the cause of many problems. You can check this by booting to Safe Mode, I'm assuming you can still get to Safe Mode OK, and then running regedit. (start | Run enter regedit and then click OK and in the left hand pane browse to the key (clicking the + sign to open branches) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Setup and then in the right hand pane looking for the value "SourcePath". This should point at the folder containing the Win Me cab files. If it does not, in the right hand pane double click "SourcePath" and edit the contents of the Value data box to point to the correct folder. When you have done this Win Me will be able to, correctly, automatically retrieve any files that it requires without further user intervention unless the files concerned are for a third party device. In such cases you should download and use the Win Me drivers from the manufacturer's web site but don't do that until Win Me itself is properly up and running. Best of luck. -- Mike Maltby William B. Lurie wrote: Latest progress: I've gone around 3 times now, and each time I remove more. I have not yet pulled the USB connectors for webcam, and of course I can't pull the monitor USB plug. On next pass I'll pull the webcam (it isn't easy to identify and get at). And also the Ethernet connection, which I do not intend to use with this ME system. But for now, maybe you'd care to advise about the self- installation of 5 files that it can't find, and I can't supply. It wants to install hidclass.sys hidpause.sys hidvkc.sys mouse.drv msmon.vxd from C:\windows\options\cabs and it doesn't find them, and I can't supply them because, even when I manage to boot to Safe Mode, it doesn't see my CD drive, so I can't lead it to the CD. That in itself requires some advice....... Over to you, Mike...... |
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Mike, I realize that I am trying your patience, but I am
trying to follow instructions, which sometimes lead to places on CDs or in C: that I am not able to reach. As of now, I am unable to remove 4 IDE drive controllers from the Dev. Manager. I would gladly do so, but in none of the dozen go-around have I been able to. So, ipso facto, by your statement, I am wasting your time and mine. As of my last attempt (before booting back to my main system) I removed all connections other than power, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Even the Ethernet connection I removed. Now regarding the files in C:\.....cab, at the time it's requesting them, C: is the ME system, and the Browse button gives no other option. My CD drive is not shown as an option, so until we 'reinstall' that drive, I can't read from it. I note that in installing all the drivers, it installed one for the CD in Device Manager, but the drive is not shown in Explorer as being there. I can go to Registry comfortably, but as for ancestry of the ME system, I installed it myself years ago, as an upgrade to the Win 98, which was OEM installed and I have the CD from which that installation was made. I will read your further instructions as to what to do in Registry, in more detail. I don't mind going there, but I have to understand what to change once I'm there. So I *am* complying with instructions as well as I am able. By the way, after everything that can install, IS installed in Safe Mode, it tells me to Restart, and I click to restart, and it always hangs there, in MSGRV52(Not Responding), and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to kill it in the Task Manager list. Just another thorn in my side while I crawl along. Mike M wrote: Until you remove everything from Dev.Man. then I'm sorry but you are wasting both your and our time. You should also have NOTHING whatsoever connected to the box other than keyboard and mouse whilst trying to get the old hard disk up and running, least of all any external usb devices. All the more so if these various devices were not connected to the system whose hard disk you are now using. Over to you, Mike...... I'm sorry but not really much point until you follow the earlier advice but I'll try. If you are being asked for files that are part of the basic Win Me operating system such as those you mention either insert your Win Me CD or, perhaps better, ensure that the registry is correctly pointing to the location where these files are stored on your hard disk which will be usually be either C:\Windows\Options\Install or C:\Windows\Options\Cabs, which depending on the original media used to install the system, Microsoft media uses the ..\Install folder whilst OEM media normally uses the ..\Cabs folder. Note however that some OEM manufacturers, for reasons unknown, chose to place the Win Me cab set in different locations, sometimes even on a different partition (nothing wrong with that) but then failed to enter the correct location in the registry which was a cardinal sin and the cause of many problems. You can check this by booting to Safe Mode, I'm assuming you can still get to Safe Mode OK, and then running regedit. (start | Run enter regedit and then click OK and in the left hand pane browse to the key (clicking the + sign to open branches) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Setup and then in the right hand pane looking for the value "SourcePath". This should point at the folder containing the Win Me cab files. If it does not, in the right hand pane double click "SourcePath" and edit the contents of the Value data box to point to the correct folder. When you have done this Win Me will be able to, correctly, automatically retrieve any files that it requires without further user intervention unless the files concerned are for a third party device. In such cases you should download and use the Win Me drivers from the manufacturer's web site but don't do that until Win Me itself is properly up and running. Best of luck. |
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And now, Mike, a short while later, I return from having
examined Registry. What is there, is exactly what it says as the location of the files it needs. Then, according to what you told me, it will find them unless the files concerned are for a third party device. So that's my next obstacle. Is my next step, then, to contact HP, the manufacturer of this new machine, and ask him how I can download a CAB by that name, which is for this application in this machine? If so, I'm sure it would be a dead end. William B. Lurie wrote: Mike, I realize that I am trying your patience, but I am trying to follow instructions, which sometimes lead to places on CDs or in C: that I am not able to reach. As of now, I am unable to remove 4 IDE drive controllers from the Dev. Manager. I would gladly do so, but in none of the dozen go-around have I been able to. So, ipso facto, by your statement, I am wasting your time and mine. As of my last attempt (before booting back to my main system) I removed all connections other than power, monitor, keyboard and mouse. Even the Ethernet connection I removed. Now regarding the files in C:\.....cab, at the time it's requesting them, C: is the ME system, and the Browse button gives no other option. My CD drive is not shown as an option, so until we 'reinstall' that drive, I can't read from it. I note that in installing all the drivers, it installed one for the CD in Device Manager, but the drive is not shown in Explorer as being there. I can go to Registry comfortably, but as for ancestry of the ME system, I installed it myself years ago, as an upgrade to the Win 98, which was OEM installed and I have the CD from which that installation was made. I will read your further instructions as to what to do in Registry, in more detail. I don't mind going there, but I have to understand what to change once I'm there. So I *am* complying with instructions as well as I am able. By the way, after everything that can install, IS installed in Safe Mode, it tells me to Restart, and I click to restart, and it always hangs there, in MSGRV52(Not Responding), and I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to kill it in the Task Manager list. Just another thorn in my side while I crawl along. Mike M wrote: Until you remove everything from Dev.Man. then I'm sorry but you are wasting both your and our time. You should also have NOTHING whatsoever connected to the box other than keyboard and mouse whilst trying to get the old hard disk up and running, least of all any external usb devices. All the more so if these various devices were not connected to the system whose hard disk you are now using. Over to you, Mike...... I'm sorry but not really much point until you follow the earlier advice but I'll try. If you are being asked for files that are part of the basic Win Me operating system such as those you mention either insert your Win Me CD or, perhaps better, ensure that the registry is correctly pointing to the location where these files are stored on your hard disk which will be usually be either C:\Windows\Options\Install or C:\Windows\Options\Cabs, which depending on the original media used to install the system, Microsoft media uses the ..\Install folder whilst OEM media normally uses the ..\Cabs folder. Note however that some OEM manufacturers, for reasons unknown, chose to place the Win Me cab set in different locations, sometimes even on a different partition (nothing wrong with that) but then failed to enter the correct location in the registry which was a cardinal sin and the cause of many problems. You can check this by booting to Safe Mode, I'm assuming you can still get to Safe Mode OK, and then running regedit. (start | Run enter regedit and then click OK and in the left hand pane browse to the key (clicking the + sign to open branches) HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion\Setup and then in the right hand pane looking for the value "SourcePath". This should point at the folder containing the Win Me cab files. If it does not, in the right hand pane double click "SourcePath" and edit the contents of the Value data box to point to the correct folder. When you have done this Win Me will be able to, correctly, automatically retrieve any files that it requires without further user intervention unless the files concerned are for a third party device. In such cases you should download and use the Win Me drivers from the manufacturer's web site but don't do that until Win Me itself is properly up and running. Best of luck. |
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New PC, ME with old BIOS
You've lost me now. You should need nothing from HP to get Win Me up and
running. When you have done that, and NOT before, you can start adding in third party drivers such as that for your motherboard chipset. If you are saying the motherboard is from HP then you should hopefully be able to obtain all the drivers you need from the HP web site. Incidentally, drivers are most unlikely to be provided as a cab file. In most cases these will be in the form of an exe or zip file which when run creates a folder to which you then point the properties sheet for the device in question so as to add the driver or, as can also be the case, an exe file that when run installs the driver plus quite often other third party utilities - this latter often being the method used by HP to install their printers. The one problem I now realise is that HP may well have removed all Win me drivers from their web site including those for your PC. Win Me is long out of support and I know that HP removed virtually all Win Me drivers for their printers a couple of years ago. I hate to say this but just as one needs to learn to walk before one can run the same is true of getting your PC up and running with the transferred hard drive. Get Win Me running and taking you to the desktop in Normal Mode and then and ONLY then think about installing manufacturer's drivers for your hardware. -- Mike Maltby William B. Lurie wrote: And now, Mike, a short while later, I return from having examined Registry. What is there, is exactly what it says as the location of the files it needs. Then, according to what you told me, it will find them unless the files concerned are for a third party device. So that's my next obstacle. Is my next step, then, to contact HP, the manufacturer of this new machine, and ask him how I can download a CAB by that name, which is for this application in this machine? If so, I'm sure it would be a dead end. |
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