I'm putting together a system for a friend with parts that I have around after 5 years of upgrading my PC and my son's PC.
I updated the BIOS and that went well, and after the BIOS is working fine, but for one thing.
I'm using a Windows 98 Fat32 emergency disk (Windows 98 2ed) floppy disk, that I've used for 5 years now (Its my lucky disk). And with it I fdisk the Hard Drives, deleting the old partitions, creating new partitions, Formating the drives etc. After the drives are Partitiond and formated as I have done in the past for a good old clean install of Windows 98 2ed.
the last thing is to let it boot using that floppy, to give you CDRom support, at this point the floppy scanes and install dos cdrom drivers, and assigns a drive letter to the cd drive.
Well this is where I'm having a problem, it gets about half way and stops, it hanging at
- Scanning PCI bus using Mechanism #2-
Never looked at it before, I've tryed moving stuff around, taking items out, nothing is working to get past this.
So thats what made me think that perhaps something went wrong with the flash and did something bad to my PCI bus.
System: no name 350 watt PS p4 ready
Jetway 993AN ver 1.2 motherboard, VIA chipset, CEL, P2, P3, (now with latest N11 BIOS)
P3 600MHz 100 Coppermine
150 mixed sdram 64 64 32 PC100 (BIOS reports 160?) I think its adding some portion of the video Ram
Asus AGP-V7100 GeForce2 MX 32NB
2 - Quantum fireball EX 6gb Drives (set as master)
Promise IDE controller card (with two IDE channels) faster then the IDE single channel on the MB
Sound Blaster Live Value
AOpen Modem
Cool stuff back when.
I'm going to be installing Windows XP Home on it, I know I don't need the 98 cdrom drivers, but I don't like the idea that I can't install Windows 98 if I had to, I don't think anything is wrong, I bet I'm forgetting somthing.
What do you think
Jim