eweo
January 10th, 2003, 08:17 AM
I am not new to computers but am having trouble with this one: I am putting together a computer and have three HD's installed and 1 CD Rom drive. HD#1 is master, HD#2 is slave, HD#3 is secondary master and CD Rom is secondary slave. I have not overclocked thisd system yet, it is currently a PII 350mhz system with only 64 mb of ram. ATI video, blah blah blah. The HD's have been fdisked and reformatted so that they are clean and fresh.
Here is the problem: I go to install 98 on it, using my trusty 98 floppy to give me cd rom support, that works perfect everytime. I then try to install win98 from the cd, type setup - it goes through scandisk and finds no errors - as soon as it says copying files needed for installation,, it goes right back to the command prompt. The pc does not freeze but occaionally I get "error loading system.drv" I can try it again to no avail. I also tried using a bootable 98 cd and I get "cd boot - Failure!". Can someone give me any idea what is going on? I have built alot of pc's but never had this particular problem.
Here is the problem: I go to install 98 on it, using my trusty 98 floppy to give me cd rom support, that works perfect everytime. I then try to install win98 from the cd, type setup - it goes through scandisk and finds no errors - as soon as it says copying files needed for installation,, it goes right back to the command prompt. The pc does not freeze but occaionally I get "error loading system.drv" I can try it again to no avail. I also tried using a bootable 98 cd and I get "cd boot - Failure!". Can someone give me any idea what is going on? I have built alot of pc's but never had this particular problem.