Win98 problems

Petey123 · 11-20-2003, 09:51 AM

I don't know if anyone can help, but I recently purchased a 2nd hand motherboard with processor Athlon 1.4GHz and installed it into my PC. I Fdisked the C Drive and loaded windows 98SE which all went wonderfully and it wasn't until the following day I discovered that on startup the PC stops on the win98 (welcome)screen. If you leave this for long enough a message appears saying there is a problem reading the C Drive. If you then restart, everything works OK.
Also I have had a couple of instances when loading software from a CD onto the C Drive where the PC stops halfway through a transfer and although it dosen't lock up, it won't let you do anything.
I have totally rebuilt the machine since and the same fault is still there.
If anyone has any good ideas, I would be most grateful

11-20-2003, 09:58 AM

What kind of hard drive is it?

Petey123 · 11-21-2003, 01:59 AM

Thanks for your response.
The hard drive is a IBM deskstar 40gb ATA-100 5400rpm. I did manage to borrow another hard drive from work, I don't know exactly what it was, but it was quite an old 3gb drive which had exactly the same problem on startup.

I'm no computer expert but I can't help but think there is some kind of race problem going on, something going to fast for something else maybe!

11-21-2003, 06:23 AM

Well when buying a used motherboard you don't really know how the bios settings were left by the previous owner. So the first thing I would try would be to clear the bios and set it to it's default settings.
What brand is the motherboard?

Petey123 · 11-24-2003, 01:53 AM

Well I changed my bios to optimized defaults and everything works wondeful. It only appeared to change 2 settings, it disabled AGP fast write and HDD smart.

Thanks you very much for your time and assistance, you can’t imagine how long I’ve spent trying to sort this out, although not too sure why I didn't think of it myself!

Many thanks

A very happy Pete
sealy:

11-20-2003, 09:51 AM	#1 (permalink)
Petey123 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: England Posts: 7 OS: XP SP2	Win98 problems I don't know if anyone can help, but I recently purchased a 2nd hand motherboard with processor Athlon 1.4GHz and installed it into my PC. I Fdisked the C Drive and loaded windows 98SE which all went wonderfully and it wasn't until the following day I discovered that on startup the PC stops on the win98 (welcome)screen. If you leave this for long enough a message appears saying there is a problem reading the C Drive. If you then restart, everything works OK. Also I have had a couple of instances when loading software from a CD onto the C Drive where the PC stops halfway through a transfer and although it dosen't lock up, it won't let you do anything. I have totally rebuilt the machine since and the same fault is still there. If anyone has any good ideas, I would be most grateful

11-20-2003, 09:58 AM	#2 (permalink)
SPEEDO Guest Posts: n/a OS:	What kind of hard drive is it?

11-21-2003, 01:59 AM	#3 (permalink)
Petey123 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: England Posts: 7 OS: XP SP2	Thanks for your response. The hard drive is a IBM deskstar 40gb ATA-100 5400rpm. I did manage to borrow another hard drive from work, I don't know exactly what it was, but it was quite an old 3gb drive which had exactly the same problem on startup. I'm no computer expert but I can't help but think there is some kind of race problem going on, something going to fast for something else maybe!

11-21-2003, 06:23 AM	#4 (permalink)
SPEEDO Guest Posts: n/a OS:	Well when buying a used motherboard you don't really know how the bios settings were left by the previous owner. So the first thing I would try would be to clear the bios and set it to it's default settings. What brand is the motherboard?

11-24-2003, 01:53 AM	#5 (permalink)
Petey123 Registered User Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: England Posts: 7 OS: XP SP2	Well I changed my bios to optimized defaults and everything works wondeful. It only appeared to change 2 settings, it disabled AGP fast write and HDD smart. Thanks you very much for your time and assistance, you can’t imagine how long I’ve spent trying to sort this out, although not too sure why I didn't think of it myself! Many thanks A very happy Pete sealy: