Hi guys,

I wanted to install Win98SE on the following system:

Gigabyte GA-6BXC

Pentium III 450MHz

256MB Ram (2x 64 & 1x 128)

GeForce 4 MX-440

6,5GB Maxtor HDD

Liteon CD-Writer

(opt. LAN-Card, Soundcard)

I startet the installation with few different parameter-settings and everytime the GUI-Install is reached, the time of installation is displayed and I click the "OK"-Button the Setup locks up. The process bar in the middle of the screen reaches 100% and about 5 seconds later I'll get a black bar in the screen center. I tried every combinating of RAM-Modules and removed all addon-cards, but allways get the same failure.

What can I do?

Hi guys,

I wanted to install Win98SE on the following system:

Gigabyte GA-6BXC

Pentium III 450MHz

256MB Ram (2x 64 & 1x 128)

GeForce 4 MX-440

6,5GB Maxtor HDD

Liteon CD-Writer

(opt. LAN-Card, Soundcard)

I startet the installation with few different parameter-settings and everytime the GUI-Install is reached, the time of installation is displayed and I click the "OK"-Button the Setup locks up. The process bar in the middle of the screen reaches 100% and about 5 seconds later I'll get a black bar in the screen center. I tried every combinating of RAM-Modules and removed all addon-cards, but allways get the same failure.

What can I do?

It's probably because of a flaky motherboard or processor. Possibly caused by processor overheating.

The motherboard may have bad caps. For more information about the bad cap issue, please go to the following web site:

http://badcaps.net

I don't think the motherboard as anay failure with bad caps. Perhaps I could raise the processors Vcore?!

When I installed WinXP on the same system there was no problem! No crashes on install and none while running benchmarks and so on. *wired*

Trouble-shooting:

1) can you install your copy of Win98 on another machine? Did it work?

2) have you checked the install CD can read all the data perfectly?

3) have you checked the hardware for errors? ie the hard disk for surface errors. Even though WinXP installs perfectly, this could still be the problem.

4) have you tried copying the install files to the hard drive and starting setup from there?

I don't think the motherboard as anay failure with bad caps. Perhaps I could raise the processors Vcore?!

When I installed WinXP on the same system there was no problem! No crashes on install and none while running benchmarks and so on. *wired*

That's if crashes occured with benchmarks and games. Usually, if you can't even complete a Windows installation process, then there's no way that it would pass benchmarks and games! Just checking.

With bad caps, the crashes would get worse until it completely fails to boot!!!

Edited November 7, 200520 yr by RJARRRPCGP