Blue screen on install

[Jozon]

Greetings computer gods I humbly beg your assistance. I upgraded a couple of my computers and with the parts left over (Abit BE6II, P3 750, 256 pc100 memory) I bought a case (Evercase 10 bay, 300w screwless) to assemble another computer. Got it put together, it fired up and posted but after I partioned and formatted the 20Gb Seagate HD I got a blue screen error when installing Windows 98 SE. After multiple tries I got windows installed but the system would hang if I attempted to install any programs. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. P.S. All these parts were working fine in another computer before the upgrade. Thanks.

 

[DaiShan]

could you post the exact error if possible?

 

[RustyNale]

Welcome to AnandTech, Jozon,

Couple of questions and thoughts;

Did you use the jumpers to reset the bios before loading the os?
Did you flash the bios with the latest version? be6-ll bios
Did you check all your jumper settings on the mobo?
If using multiple sticks of ram, did you try just one stick? In different slots?

 

[GregMal]

Other tips.......do a minimal install.....no modems, nics, sound cards when installing, install
them later...also use a generic vid card (PCI) during install.........Greg

 

[Jozon]

After initial scandisk setup starts, when I click continue I get Application Error W98Setup caused segment load failure in module setupx.dll @ 0001:0059. I then click ok then Application Error w98setup caused a GPF in module user.exe @ 0001:40b6. Close. Goes to black screen. Control, Alt, Delete. Second time thru it begins setup for a minute before another general protection fault in module unknown 0B2F:8375 W98setup will close. close then a white screen with cdrom and hard drive activity, windows is installing but I cancell out since install isn't clean.

 

[Jozon]

I did not reset jumpers, flash bios or use single stick of memory and will attempt to do so. Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[Jozon]

All I have in it is a Hercules 3D Prophet GeForce 2 video card.

 

[RustyNale]

Try formatting your hd twice, and out of curiosity, are you sure your copy of win98 is good?

 

[Jozon]

I recently upgraded 2 computers (that's where these parts came from) and installed 98 on both of those. But my boot disk failed so I made a start-up disk on one of the other computers.

 

[RustyNale]

Hmmm, could be the boot disk you're making is boofoo'd, try one from here. If that doesn't work, sounds like your hd is suspect.

 

[Erinyes]

Maybe your computer is trying to tell you to use a different OS...

 

[jamesbond007]

I've had similar problems with a Windows XP install...I was installing a fresh install of an OEM version of Windows XP Pro onto a person's Hewlett-Packard computer and I would get FUBARed errors as well. It turns out that the CDROM was a pile of crap and couldn't read the disc properly. I put it into the person's CDRW drive and it installed flawlessly.

I'd give it another try with a different CDROM. Now, I'm sure the CDROM you're using works fine, but I have found that some brands are picky on what media they want to read. Sounds dumb, but it's happened to me several times with different programs and games on other peoples' PCs.

Good luck!

 

[Jozon]

Thanks Rusty I'm gonna play with it this weekend and see if some of the suggestions everyone was kind enough to give might resolve it.

 

[Jozon]

I'm open to suggestions about a new OS. I have a 3 station home LAN that's used mostly for gaming(Q3, UT, Starcraft, etc.) This is the first issue I've had with 98 SE and thought it one of the more stable OS's with the least compatability issue's. As long as something works I tend to stick with it. I'm not familiar with XP as a gaming platform but have read of security and compatability issues. My thinking is the longer I wait to upgrade, the better XP will be after initial debugging.

 

[Jozon]

Thanks Jamesbond I considered putting the harddrive in another computer just to get a clean install.

 

[Jozon]

Rusty thanks for the link, just what I've been looking for. U da man.

 

[foofoo]

hi,
90% of the time blue screens on install are the result of bad ram. do you have another stick you could swap out?
good luck

 

[Jozon]

Thanks foofoo I try that.

 

[Dekaner]

I ran into a similar problem on a friends machine, turned out he had somehow changed the "leave a hole at 64M for OS/2" setting in his BIOS. I would recommend that you load the default bios settings and then go through and reset them to the preferred values.

 

[LordAccord]

I have an almost identical setup on my ICS machine, barring the video card and HDD...

however, some suggestions:

FIRST:::: If your board has onboard ATA66 controller and you are using it, STOP!!! Use the normal IDE bus, you will get bluescreens out the arse, even under 2k and XP... good luck ever using that controller without drivers before an install.

Second::: That MOBO is very very picky about RAM, both I and a friend have had issues with it. I am currently running a stick of samsung and a stick of crucial, both at CAS2 fine, but when I was upgrading RAM on all of my other machines and tested them in this one, the ONLY other sticks that worked were my Mosel chips...the rest (Micron 64, Hyndaye 128, a few generics, and an Infineon 128) would not boot, alone or with others.

Third::: You might try disabling some of the BIOS ACPI stuff I have had a lot of problems with that, but its a long shot for dealing with the problems you are having.

Hope that helps. if u need any more help let me know

LoRdAccord