Installing Win 98

**sav22** · April 8th, 2004, 04:12 PM

I have a problem installing Win 98 on my PC. It is a Dell GX110 Pentium 3 800ghz. I put the Win 98 boot disk and after its done doing everything I typed-
d:\win 98\setup.exe d: - being my cd rom drive
I previously installed Win 98, it did work. i think the guy where i bought the computer typed in a code when telling me all i have to do is type d:\win 98\setup.exe and follow Windows step by step.

Also if any one could help me find drivers for GX110 it would be greatly appreciated.

**geoscomp** · April 8th, 2004, 04:20 PM

leave out the win 98 part
when you get the A prompt, type D:
when you get the D prompt type in setup.exe

**NooNoo** · April 8th, 2004, 04:22 PM

here you go and welcome to Windrivers sav22!

If you are using a win98 bootdiskette, it installs tools on a virtual drive called d: if you have only a c: drive normally. This means that the cdrom drive has become E:. Follow geoscomps advice, substituting E for D.

**sav22** · April 9th, 2004, 07:13 AM

Thanxs for everyone who is helping me wit h my porblem. I called the guy where I got the computer, and he says the reason it doesn't work is because I need to load drivers for my CD ROM.

Could anyone help me find where i could get the drivers.
I think I found it but, I'm not sure .

http://support.buympc.com/downloads/boot.html.

**sav22** · April 9th, 2004, 07:37 AM

Also check this site with the person with the long comment:: Does this apply to me???

www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/ Win95_3x/Q_20792518.html

**NooNoo** · April 9th, 2004, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by sav22

Thanxs for everyone who is helping me wit h my porblem. I called the guy where I got the computer, and he says the reason it doesn't work is because I need to load drivers for my CD ROM.

Could anyone help me find where i could get the drivers.
I think I found it but, I'm not sure .

http://support.buympc.com/downloads/boot.html.

OK, I am now very confused. I put a link to ALL your drivers in my post. Did you not look there?

**NooNoo** · April 9th, 2004, 07:52 AM

you need a bootdiskette that will run the cdrom and start the windows setup for you. Click the link I just gave and click on Windows 98 SE OEM | Alt - download the file.

When you have downloaded it to a directory you can find again - put a floppy diskette into your floppy drive, and double click the file you downloaded. This will make a boot diskette for you. DO NOT copy or save the downloaded file to the floppy drive. The file you are downloading creates the floppy diskette when it is double clicked.

**sav22** · April 9th, 2004, 07:53 AM

I need to get access to my cd rom in dos since i formatted my pc to load windows. And the guy i bought my pc from used an atapi driver.

**sav22** · April 9th, 2004, 07:58 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

you need a bootdiskette that will run the cdrom and start the windows setup for you. Click the link I just gave and click on Windows 98 SE OEM | Alt - download the file.

When you have downloaded it to a directory you can find again - put a floppy diskette into your floppy drive, and double click the file you downloaded. This will make a boot diskette for you. DO NOT copy or save the downloaded file to the floppy drive. The file you are downloading creates the floppy diskette when it is double clicked.

Thank you very much for ur help.

when i put it on my disk, do ineed to type anything in dos like a:\......

**NooNoo** · April 9th, 2004, 08:05 AM

I'm sorry I don't follow ?

Having created the boot diskette, you put it in the machine that you wish to load windows on to. It will load up the cdrom drivers etc and then should offer you a menu like 1) start windows setup, 2) start computer with cdrom support 3) start windows without cdrom support.

Obviously you want option 1.

**sav22** · April 9th, 2004, 08:06 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

OK, I am now very confused. I put a link to ALL your drivers in my post. Did you not look there?

The dell driver site is what mainly i had trouble with caux i dunno which drivers mine are. the mainly one i want is the interent/LAN.

The 3COM chip says a serial.

920 - BRo6
THen under it::
3 COM 40 - 0579 - 006

**NooNoo** · April 9th, 2004, 08:07 AM

Get windows on it first, then we can look at which drivers you need from the dell site.

**sav22** · April 9th, 2004, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Get windows on it first, then we can look at which drivers you need from the dell site.

That's another problem I was having. I took a look at device manger it never said any names of the hardware and I even downloaded driver kits that should tell me which drivers i need for the internet, but when installed it never worked.After I did that there was some probelms occuring so I formated Win 98. Now when I try to reinstall Win 98 it does not work cauz I need the boot disks like you said and.
I have to wait to tell u if the boot disk works cauz for God knows why on my new computer does not have a floopy drive so I can't put it on floopy right now, so I'm gonna go to my friends house to do it.

**NooNoo** · April 9th, 2004, 08:19 AM

That's fine, take your time.

**bcyee** · April 9th, 2004, 12:55 PM

I had noticed that you indicated that you were told to type: d:\win 98\setup.exe d: from the guy you bought the computer. However, DOS does not recognize spaces in path names. Geoscomp's suggestion should work unless you have some sort of "special" Windows CD and not an original. The boot disk that is created by Windows 98 does have an ATAPI (CD-ROM) driver for DOS already on it. If your still having problems try typing: d:\win98\setup.exe as you were told to do by the guy would sold you the computer, you can leave off that "d:" at the end. Good Luck.