New Win98 Install problems.

Well, I have been having some issues with a computer that I have here. I run
the setup command and the first welcome to windows box pops up. Choices are
to exit setup or to continue. I click continue and the bar goes all the way
to 100 percent and just hangs there.

The system only has two 64mb ram sticks, An AGP video card, 40x CD rom,
4.3gb hard drive.
I have no cards in the system but the video card
I have tested the two sticks of ram individually and they come up fine.
I have the install files on the hard drive and I have tried two differnt
hard drives with the same results.

The only other thing I haven't done is try a differnt processor. The one
that is in the machine is a PIII 550 Slot processor. I am hoping that that
isn't the issue, but it is looking more and more like it is the problem. Any
help would be appreciated! Thanks ahead of time.

Phil

Go into the BIOS setup and make sure that boot virus protection is disabled.
Be sure to save the change when exiting. If this doesn't help, try running
setup with the "/ir" switch.

setup /ir

Ben

"Phil retrobytes.com" phil@nospam wrote in message ...
Well, I have been having some issues with a computer that I have here. I run
the setup command and the first welcome to windows box pops up. Choices are
to exit setup or to continue. I click continue and the bar goes all the way
to 100 percent and just hangs there.

The system only has two 64mb ram sticks, An AGP video card, 40x CD rom,
4.3gb hard drive.
I have no cards in the system but the video card
I have tested the two sticks of ram individually and they come up fine.
I have the install files on the hard drive and I have tried two differnt
hard drives with the same results.

The only other thing I haven't done is try a differnt processor. The one
that is in the machine is a PIII 550 Slot processor. I am hoping that that
isn't the issue, but it is looking more and more like it is the problem. Any
help would be appreciated! Thanks ahead of time.

Phil

This sounds extremely silly, but I used a 10 gig hard drive and the system
installed just fine. So no more issues, everything went smoothly. I just
couldn't figure out why the 4.3gig drives wouldn't work. I even low level
formated the drives to make sure that there was nothing on them. It was very
strange, but the problem has been resolved. Thanks for your suggestion.

Phil

"Ben Myers" wrote:

Go into the BIOS setup and make sure that boot virus protection is disabled.
Be sure to save the change when exiting. If this doesn't help, try running
setup with the "/ir" switch.

setup /ir

Ben

"Phil retrobytes.com" phil@nospam wrote in message ...
Well, I have been having some issues with a computer that I have here. I run
the setup command and the first welcome to windows box pops up. Choices are
to exit setup or to continue. I click continue and the bar goes all the way
to 100 percent and just hangs there.

The system only has two 64mb ram sticks, An AGP video card, 40x CD rom,
4.3gb hard drive.
I have no cards in the system but the video card
I have tested the two sticks of ram individually and they come up fine.
I have the install files on the hard drive and I have tried two differnt
hard drives with the same results.

The only other thing I haven't done is try a differnt processor. The one
that is in the machine is a PIII 550 Slot processor. I am hoping that that
isn't the issue, but it is looking more and more like it is the problem. Any
help would be appreciated! Thanks ahead of time.

Phil