Win95 lock up on extended CD transfer to HD?

[cordon]

I just finished building my K6-2 450 Mhz, 64Meg RAM (PC100) with Maxtor diamond max 17.6 Gig hard disk. Motherboard is TI5VGF, Diamond V770, 32x TEAC CDrom. All hardware running to OEM specs.
Win95 installed with a few hitches. All device drivers i got with the hardware are installed.

Netgear 10/100 net card is not working but that may be a hardware fault. It's using IRQ 11 which appears to be the same as a PCI handler.... I can't manually set either of these values (according to win95)

Problem is that any transfer (say installing a game over 80Meg approx) locks the machine. No mouse response, no num lock response and no CTRL + ALT + Delete to task manager. The only option is to reset.

Any way I can fix this? It seems an awful shame to have all that HD space without being able to fill it.

[mzcpu]

What chipset is on that motherboard? I have seen many needing patches-updates etc. Also could be you need to swap out the memory. Why not go to Win 98? Good luck.


Ciao.....Jeanne

[Dan F]

I had the same problem with my Maxtor 13GB
drive.
What fixed it was to lower the bus speed to 95MHZ.
Seems the Maxtor drives dont like any higher speed.

[cordon]

Solution of sorts for win 95 problem:

Upgrade to win98 and format the drive as FAT32. It works, all my devices appear to be working.
So far, so good.