win98se SUCKS! j/k another installation problem

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alright..its me again...geez, guess what? I have another problem....
This time, I am able to install win98SE right, and I did that last night and started at 1 in the morning which took like friggin the whole night and day to install because I fell asleep and the next morning it said "windows will now restart your system, blah blah" so i assumed that everything went fine. BUT, when I rebooted and it said, "WINDOWS IS PREPARING YOUR SYSTEM FOR THE FIRST TIME" I don't know if the computer is hanging or it just takes a long time for it to do it. I don't know, because I waited for about 30 minutes to let it do that and when I came back, it didn't do jack crap.
I've noticed this though, the Win98SE disc is from my brother's DELL computer. I don't know if that matters or not but thats the only thing that i'm thinking right now. If it is, is there a way to use that disc anyway, without buying a retail one thats not made for dell? I've heard that there are some switches that I could input or whatever...
ALSO, I checked out the AUTOEXEC.BAT file, and at the bottom, it said WINDOWS SETUP NOT FOUND..............hows that possible, i just installed the damn thing.........man I still dont know if this is still a hardware or software thing.............PLEASE I NEED TO KNOW!!!
THANKS TO YOU GUYS THAT HELPED LAST TIME....but I NEED YOUR HELP AGAIN...THANKS!!
BTW, MY SPECS ARE STILL THE SAME

AMD K7-Tbird 900 mhz
MSI KT7-Pro2-A ('A' for ATA 100)
256 MB ram PC133
54x Cd-Rom
40 gig HDD MAXTOR model # 57040h4 Diamond 60 ATA
Leadtek GeForce2 32mb

p.s.
my BIOS settings are still at FAIL-SAFE...should I keep the harddrive settings at LBA? Should I delete the partitions? and I STILL CAN'T SOFTBOOT whatsup with that? Geezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...... http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/mad.gif http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/mad.gif http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/mad.gif http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/mad.gif http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/mad.gif

[Randy_tx]

Well........all I can tell you is that I install Win98 SE about 6-10 times a week on systems and almost NEVER have a bit of problem.....so I personally dont think its win98 causing the problem.......This type of problem is USUALLY associated with BAD RAM , a Defective Motherboard, a defective Hard Drive and possibly a bad cpu (tho I doubt it). Remember, new stuff can be bad from the git-go http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif I would start with the SDRAM....try another RAM chip in this machine......It wouldnt surprise me at all if all of your problems went away immediately with a new stick. If that doesnt work, post back and there will be other steps to "get to the bottom" of this one.

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I'm putting a new Fat32 partition in my Head Drive...hope it speeds me up.......

[scroatbagg]

Had the same problem and isolated it to a change in the bios setting. Check that you bios is set to default. I did this and it worked. Only took me 10 or 12 hours to figure out!!! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/biggrin.gif

[50cents]

MAN you are the master............I just found my solution........it was the RAM.......i bought it from a computer show in Buena Park, California...one of the LACOMPUTERFAIR shows........i switched the ram from my MiCRONPC which was a pc100 64 mb with the pC133 256 mb one i bought from the show....and guess what.......i could soft boot now, and the booting process was actually faster than the frickin 256 mb.....it hardly ever hangs now.....thanks to you and the rest of you.......hope this information is useful in the future...

i'm gonna RAM this on someone's a**....... http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/cool.gif

[This message has been edited by Paleo Pete (edited 04-11-2001).]

[Paleo Pete]

Let's watch the language please. A bit of mild swearing is no problem, but try and keep it light. We have people from all over the world here, every walk of life, and every religion you can think of. Let's show some consideration for their sensitivities please. The guy who posted next to you could be the pastor of a little country church somewhere in Mississippi. Or your neighbor's grandmother...Someone of that sort might be offended by that kind of language. Don't want that to happen...

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[Adam Pintar]

ahhh

[This message has been edited by Adam Pintar (edited 04-15-2001).]