Win 98 installation problem, after hardware upgrade...

[AlienDyne]

One of my friends has a problem.
Just upgraded to SOYO SY-5EHM, 64MB SDRAM pc100, Western Digital Caviar 6.4 GB.
The old ones are: CPU P54C 133Mhz, VGA S3 2MB PCI, Sound Card Opti930 ISA.
We installed windows98 after fdisk and format.
The problem:
After Win98 first boot, the machine freezes.
This happens before anything else appears.
The mouse cursor freezes too.

I tried some other memory DIMMs. The problem remains.
I've tried another vga (s3 too.)

I've also verified the jumber settings.

Sould I try another SOYO or the memory speed (100Mhz) affects the CPU which runs at 66Mhz?

Does anyone of you guys can help me?

Thanks you all in advance...

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[ReBoot]

Try your install with nothing but video plugged in. Usually a hang on hardware detect means an IRQ or port conflict.

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[AlienDyne]

Thanks for your reply Reboot.
I finally found what caused it. It was the CD-ROM. It is an old Toshiba, which propably can't read cd-r too (because of the TOC). I will have to replace it, in order to avoid problems in the future...

Anyway, thanks a lot.


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[Darren Wilson]

you don't really need to replace it , just go into Safe Mode & disable DMA for the CD-ROM.

This should solve the hang ups.

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[AlienDyne]

Thanks again guys.