Black box in installer

Hi. My name is Bryan Baker. I'm 16 and I live in Canada. I
build a computer from scratch, and I've been trying to
install windows 98 on this computer. However, every time I
get to the installer, it loads to 100%. Then, the system
speaker beeps, a black rectangle appears, and the system
locks. I tried installing Windows 95 as well, but the same
issue came up. I have found so far that it has nothing to
do with the ram, everything on IDE controllers, and PCI
and AGP cards. I'm not sure if it's my processor or my
motherboard, although I highly doubt it since Windows XP
installs and functions perfectly on me. Any idea what's
going on? Thanks.

I don't really know what is going on but it sounds like a hardware issue. I
suggest trying this.

First make sure that you are installing Win98 to a separate drive or
partition and you must have a FAT or FAT32 boot partition. Copy the Win98
folder from the CD to the hard drive and then boot to Command prompt only,
change to this folder and run setup. If this fails, then I suggest removing
all hardware except one display adapter (you mentioned 2 so I can't tell if
you have them both installed) the hard drive and mouse. Pull everything
else.

I have often had this work and once Windows is installed, you can add the
other components back on to the system - preferably only one or two at a
time so that if something fails, you'll have a clue as to what is causing
the problem.

PattyL


"Bryan Baker" wrote in message
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Hi. My name is Bryan Baker. I'm 16 and I live in Canada. I
build a computer from scratch, and I've been trying to
install windows 98 on this computer. However, every time I
get to the installer, it loads to 100%. Then, the system
speaker beeps, a black rectangle appears, and the system
locks. I tried installing Windows 95 as well, but the same
issue came up. I have found so far that it has nothing to
do with the ram, everything on IDE controllers, and PCI
and AGP cards. I'm not sure if it's my processor or my
motherboard, although I highly doubt it since Windows XP
installs and functions perfectly on me. Any idea what's
going on? Thanks.

"Bryan Baker" wrote in message
...
Hi. My name is Bryan Baker. I'm 16 and I live in Canada. I
build a computer from scratch, and I've been trying to
install windows 98 on this computer. However, every time I
get to the installer, it loads to 100%. Then, the system
speaker beeps, a black rectangle appears, and the system
locks. I tried installing Windows 95 as well, but the same
issue came up. I have found so far that it has nothing to
do with the ram, everything on IDE controllers, and PCI
and AGP cards. I'm not sure if it's my processor or my
motherboard, although I highly doubt it since Windows XP
installs and functions perfectly on me. Any idea what's
going on? Thanks.

Is your CPU faster than 2.2GHz? if so, see this MS KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312108

rgds
Li'l Roberto