Upgrade HELP

[theghost]

Bought new motherboard and AMD 500 processer with 64 ram and a new atx case to upgrde my old 133mhz packard bell.also loade win98 2nd edition on to old system before transfering everything onto new setup.problem is setup crashes on new system during initilising and get error"SETUP HAS DETECTED ACORRUPT SETUP (.CAB)FILE AND CANNOT CONTINUE" Any idea what's happening.If I take out hard drive and floppy and cdrom and put them back in old system it boots up ok, put them back in new system and it wont run,get error. please help.

[Paleo Pete]

Unfortunately, you're swapping motherboards, which means Windows has no idea how to handle the new one. If you've ever taken a look in the system.ini and win.ini files, you'll see a long list of drivers, although you only have a few periferals that require them. The others are the ones used by the motherboard, to tell Windows how it operates.

To put all this tech stuff in layman's terms...format and reinstall windows, it can't understand your new motherboard.. Boot to a win98 start up disk and format the drive, (remember the /s switch) then reinstall windows. That's about the only thing that will work when you change motherboards and have trouble getting it to run. Windows has no idea how to handle the vastly different set of instructions involved between the 133, which is also a proprietary Packard Bell, and the much newer 500. Not to mention that it's probably an Intel CPU in the PB, and AMD's work diferently as well.

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While Paleo Pete suggestion to install from scratch is the best way to do it it can work the way your are trying. The problem is a bad cab file. This error is coming from the fact that when the hard drive is being booted in the new machine 98SE is looking to .cab files for new drivers. This message is telling you that the .cab file is bad. You may get around this in two ways. One put the hard drive in the old machines and delete the cabs files from the c:\windowsoptions\cabs directory or wherever they are located on the machine or Two delete the .cab file from the old hard drive by selecting F8 at boot and choose safe mode command line only and delete the directory where the cabs files exist. When you boot the machine the next time it will ask you where the cabs files are located you can either point it to the CD-ROM drive or to the freshly copied cab file directory. However as Paleo suggest a fresh install is ALWAYS best.
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