[RESOLVED] Windows ME

[LockBoy]

When I try to upgrade from 98SE to ME, my computer freezes at the setup wizard, I mean 80% of my screen goes black and locks, Please Help?

[jimmr13]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by LockBoy:
When I try to upgrade from 98SE to ME, my computer freezes at the setup wizard, I mean 80% of my screen goes black and locks, Please Help?</font>
Okay it's now midnight but I try, Okay ?
1. CPU ?
2. RAM ?
3. MotherBoard ?
4. Please tell me it's NOT a 486dx, or a P-1-166.


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[Sowulo]

RAM and PowerSupply would be my first two places to check.

[LockBoy]

System as follows:

PIII 733
AOpen AX3S PRO M/Board
256RAM Hyundai
50X CDRom
SCSI Burner
SCSI Card
GForce2MX 32MG Video Card
Sound Blaster Live Value
250MG Zip Drive
Win98 SE O/S etc etc..

Win ME Upgrade, Computer itself checks out fine, but when I try to install WIN ME Upgrade, system hangs on the very first Install Wizard, then after about a minute stuck there, the display goes black from the top almost to the bottom of the screen, leaving about an inch of display at the bottom??????

[jimmr13]

Okay you had me worried with your first post
had a client try to install Win/Me on a 486 w/48 MB Ram. ( didn't work)
Have you tried to format than doing a clean install, Could have a bad CD. Gee I hate to ask but did you get the upgrade CD (Cheeper)
The full CD, or a burned copy from ????
If it's the upgrade copy it's going to use the Win/98se .Dll files and some of it's drivers. Than again it could be a RAM problem, I've done like 70 installs of Me never seen the Wiz crash! Have you tried Microsoft Help-Support ?

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[jimmr13]

Okay I got some good news and some bad news!
First after talking to some Designers and Engineer friends at Microsoft and also A Lady who rates software ,We came up with this: When you are upgrading to Win/Me over a Win/98 or Win/98se installation, your upgrade should proceed without incident if your system is equiped with new hardware and up-to-date software programs. Not much will stop a Win/Me installation setup dead in it's tracks, BUT the presence of some outdated versions of software can. Check your systems software ! Check your 3rd party software. Gee that was 5 hours well spent! We both learned something !!

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[QuaffAPint]

The WinME upgrade process would halt on my PC going from 98SE (Not a bad halt, but a prompted halt saying something was running). I removed everything from StartUp and the various Run/RunService keys in the registry and I still got the error.

So, finally, I copied the Win9x install directory from the WinME CD to my HD and booted up in 98's safe mode. Then the install ran just fine off the HD copy.

-QuaffAPint

[Darkpoint]

heh ya. I originally had to run the setup wizard 6 times just to get it to run. It couldn't run scandisk, defrag, tribes, it would only connect to internet thru freei, never juno, netzero, bluelight, etc. (Then freei went bankrupt.) After it got pointless, I decided to do a clean install, Formatted the c: (everyone DOES use a boot partition, right?) and installed it. Runs fine, and have even reinstalled it the same way. And yes, I got the 98 upgrade for $50.

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Ahhh nostalgia. I remember our 286-12 1MB ram, 40MB HD

[Larommi]

I tried to upgrade my laptop and had the same problem so I ran set up from DOS. If you have the promotional upgrade (from Win98) I would try copying the .cab files to a folder on the HDD and run setup from safe mode.

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