Heartofgold Posted August 21, 2006 Posted August 21, 2006 I have a computer with Mobile and Duron 4 1200 mhz with 256 memory. I'm trying to load Windows 98SE on it. It has a brand new 80 gig hard drive. It just starts to load windows when this message comes up 03AF:OCCA@*SUWINI have replaced the ribbon for the cd-rom drive the hard drive and the 3 1/2. But the message keeps coming up and won't allow me to load windows.Any ideas of what is going on.
RJARRRPCGP Posted August 21, 2006 Posted August 21, 2006 1. A bad HDD. (probably)2. The BIOS has the dreaded 32 GB limit. (unlikely)
kartel Posted August 21, 2006 Posted August 21, 2006 (edited) Try a DOS floppy and partition your drive.Try 4 or 5 GIG for C:\ And keep the rest under 20 GIGI did the same here on my 40 GIGMake sure you divide the bytes properly with 0 bytes free.Other than that no clue, GL Edited August 21, 2006 by kartel
charles__ Posted August 21, 2006 Posted August 21, 2006 Might look at this.http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000293.htm#20http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129971/EN-US/
Heartofgold Posted August 21, 2006 Author Posted August 21, 2006 the hard drive was partition before, so it's split to three paritions. I had windows 98SE on it before and it ran great,
kartel Posted August 21, 2006 Posted August 21, 2006 (edited) Did you try CLEAR CMOS and "load setup defaults" till you load windows then go back and "load performance defaults" to enable 32bit (on some), then tweak and peak back to stable settings?Make sure RAM sets to "NORMAL" not "ultra fast" or what have you.ps also try another HD in that computer and see if it loads on that and\or put the 80 in another computer and see if it loads on that or gives the same error, then maybe that will narrow it down. Edited August 21, 2006 by kartel
Heartofgold Posted August 21, 2006 Author Posted August 21, 2006 (edited) I put another hard drive in with windows 98SE preloaded and it works. Looks like the 80 gig hard drive is toast. Not even three months oldI put the 80 gig hard drive in another computer and it loaded. So I don't know what's going on here????? Edited August 21, 2006 by Heartofgold
LLXX Posted August 21, 2006 Posted August 21, 2006 Free hard drive diagnostics program:http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2005.10.02-MHDD/
kartel Posted August 22, 2006 Posted August 22, 2006 I put the 80 gig hard drive in another computer and it loaded. So I don't know what's going on here?????LOL, welcome to windows, garbage can is on the left........
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