I'm facing problems with the instalation of the Windows 98

I have a clone with the next characteristics: Board AT SIS 5595 , Pentium III
of 366MHZ New HD of 30GB, 64MB of SDRAM, AMIBIOS System v.1.2.0 and I bought
the PC at 1998.
I made a new and unique primary and active partition of the total HD as
FAT32 through FDISK. Then I formatted the HD and everything has been ok
according the scadisk result. Anyway when I'm Installing Win98 SE English
version. During the step calls: of the Installation I got the next error
message:
Setup has detected a Corrupt Setup (.cab) file This may be caused by a
virus, low conventional memory, bad media or a hardware problem.
May you let me know what that error means? Is that error about Physical
Memory Problems, something about the HD or with the Processor?

May you support to me and help to me about it please?

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"Rosas, Socorro del Carmen" Rosas, Socorro del
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I have a clone with the next characteristics: Board AT SIS 5595 , Pentium
III
of 366MHZ New HD of 30GB, 64MB of SDRAM, AMIBIOS System v.1.2.0 and I
bought
the PC at 1998.
I made a new and unique primary and active partition of the total HD as
FAT32 through FDISK. Then I formatted the HD and everything has been ok
according the scadisk result. Anyway when I'm Installing Win98 SE English
version. During the step calls: of the Installation I got the next error
message:
Setup has detected a Corrupt Setup (.cab) file This may be caused by a
virus, low conventional memory, bad media or a hardware problem.
May you let me know what that error means? Is that error about Physical
Memory Problems, something about the HD or with the Processor?

May you support to me and help to me about it please?

"Rosas, Socorro del Carmen" Rosas, Socorro del
wrote in message
...
I have a clone with the next characteristics: Board AT SIS 5595 , Pentium
III
of 366MHZ New HD of 30GB, 64MB of SDRAM, AMIBIOS System v.1.2.0 and I
bought
the PC at 1998.
I made a new and unique primary and active partition of the total HD as
FAT32 through FDISK. Then I formatted the HD and everything has been ok
according the scadisk result. Anyway when I'm Installing Win98 SE English
version. During the step calls: of the Installation I got the next error
message:
Setup has detected a Corrupt Setup (.cab) file This may be caused by a
virus, low conventional memory, bad media or a hardware problem.
May you let me know what that error means? Is that error about Physical
Memory Problems, something about the HD or with the Processor?

May you support to me and help to me about it please?


since you have just formatted your drive...
it's not terrbily likely you have a virus... if setup cannot read one of
your .cab files
it's possible your cd just needs to be cleaned...
if your cd is on good shape ie" clean and not cracked...
then your machine may have a hardware problem...
could be your cdrom...could be your RAM...
but the first thing to do is clean your win98cd and try again

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 12:59:02 -0800, "Rosas, Socorro del Carmen"
Rosas, Socorro del wrote:

I have a clone with the next characteristics: Board AT SIS 5595 , Pentium III
of 366MHZ New HD of 30GB, 64MB of SDRAM, AMIBIOS System v.1.2.0 and I bought
the PC at 1998.
I made a new and unique primary and active partition of the total HD as
FAT32 through FDISK. Then I formatted the HD and everything has been ok
according the scadisk result. Anyway when I'm Installing Win98 SE English
version. During the step calls: of the Installation I got the next error
message:
Setup has detected a Corrupt Setup (.cab) file This may be caused by a
virus, low conventional memory, bad media or a hardware problem.
May you let me know what that error means? Is that error about Physical
Memory Problems, something about the HD or with the Processor?

May you support to me and help to me about it please?

That can be caused by not enough conventional memory for Setup to
extract files from the CAB files. Boot with a Win98 Startup Diskette
with CDrom support and then run Setup from the CD. That will provide
enough conventional memory for the install. The drive letter of the
CDrom may be one higher than normal. e.g. D: to E: or F:

If no help copy the Win98 folder on the Win 98 CD to your HDD and
run Setup.exe from there.

To copy the folder from Dos boot with the Startup diskette and enter
these commands:
C:
MD \Win98
Copy D:\Win98\*.* C:\win98
C:\Win98\Setup.exe

You may need to try E: or F: instead of D: for the CDrom drive.

This can help if the CDrom drive is to slow to keep up with the
extraction of CAB files but it doesn't matter as much when just
copying.

Anytime Windows needs something from the CD it will get it from the
Win98 folder on the Hard drive instead of the CD.

Regards,

Bill Watt
Computer Help and Information http://home.epix.net/~bwatt/