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by johgre

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After installing a spare motherboard and harddrive to update a computer I am encountering a constant reboot when windows 98 is installing devices. This is as far as I have been able to get to date. I can go into safe mode with no trouble, have reinstalled windows all to no avail. I have only two cards, one is an agp video card (I even tried another video card that is known to be good) and a sound card which I have taken out totally for the time being. I have not installed the network card yet.
Any help would be appreciated.

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by thechas

3 ideas,

One of your RAM modules may be incompatible.
Just because the RAM counts up in the POST does not mean it will work with Windows.
I have seen too many SDRAM DIMMs that did not function in some motherboards to not try different RAM.

Disable as many on-board devices as possible.
Skip the install of as many devices as possible until the latest version of the motherboard/chipset drivers are installed.

Copy the W98 CD onto the hard drive so that when W98 cannot read files from the CD drive, that is not a problem.

As an additional thought, update the MB BIOS, and consider that the CPU or MB may have a hidden problem.

Chas

by johgre

Good points but I have already tried exactly that. I've replaced the ram, disabled all on board devices, and copied win98 files to harddrive before installation. The processor has been checked out in another computer and even replaced with anotherthat has been working fine. Also the bios has been flashed with the latest. I'm beginning to think its the motherboard also.

John

by johgre

It turned out that it was a defect with the motherboard. The chas was correct on this one and if possible award him the points.

John

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