Error during setup

[salem69usa]

Installing 98 SE . every thing was going fine till about the last 7 min. left when doing the "Setting up the Hardware and Finalizing setting" it came up with "Rundll32 caused invalid page fault in module crypt32.dll"

Now I copyed the win98 dir from the CD to the hard drive and ran the setup from there. Could it just be the cd needs cleaning and then recopy the files again and run setup all over. Never had this prablem in all the years of installing 98se.

[NooNoo]

This message is normally associated with Internet Explorer upgrades... Are you doing a clean install or an install over?

[Guts3d]

I had the same problem three or so times, try different ram, or a different copy of windows, that might be your problem.

[salem69usa]

Yes this is a clean install. I hiave done from scratch now 5 times. Last 4 times had same error but with one differance. insted of the crytp.dll it is the msjav.dll.

I have ran scandisk doing surface test on both hard drives and no bad sectors or clusters so the drivers apper to be ok.

Also I have tryed running the install with the win98 files copied to eighter drive and even went as far as making a cd of the win98 files I used to install 98 on my own computer thinking maby my copy of 98 cd was bad. Did not do any good. Right now I don't have anyother copy of 98se that is, to try nor do I have more memory to try in there computer. I'm not a store or business, I just been helping my friends with there computer problems for the last 15 years.

I have tryed to go to the windows knowlage base but keep getting connection refused (no idea why).

[NooNoo]

OK, you have to look at things like ram, video card, and even the ide cable.... Powersupply could be dipping causing errors, the l1 and l2 cache on the cpu could be causing this.

Sorry, there is only the long painful way of removing all extraneous hardware, swapping out what you cannot do with out and try try again.

[Ya_know]

You probably should try some of these ideas. If you don't have extra memory to test things out, and perhaps a different CD-ROM drive, (in the event this is what is reading your data from the CD incorrectly), you should ask them to front the money to buy some. Tell them what you are trying to do, and offer no warrantee on the troubleshooting, because until you know what is going on you can't make any guarantees. It may be a shot in the dark, but I have seen countless times, especially here on the board, where someone has install problems similar to this, and memory turns out to be all that is wrong. I knew a guy spent 8 hours on site troubleshooting an issue, only to find everything was corrected with replacing memory. He could only charge for 2 and the price of the memory, so he was on his bosses sh!t list for weeks because of that.

You have to at least make an attempt here, because any other efforts now may be futile until you can rule out the variable.

[salem69usa]

Thank for help. And I was starting to think it was the memory also. I have gotten Windows 98 Se installed finley.

In the prosses I broke the first rule in trouble shooting. I made chanes in the bios, some in regards to the speed of the memmory, a prefech setting and some others I can't remember at the time. Then did every thing all over again with a different copy of 98se so now I'm not sure what fixed it, changing bios settings or new copy of 98se. I need a pretty girl to spank me for that one .

However it is back up and running good so far, running like a champ.

Once again thanks all for the help.