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Gen. Protection Fault installing Win98

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by nepenthe Aug 22, 2002 last reply Nov 28, 2002

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when installing win98 on a formatted drive a General Protection fault - w98setup.BIN at 0007:0BF7 and user:exe at 0001:40B6 then a Raw default fram stock dump EC=000 IO=5EF7 CS=03C7 FFFL=3007 SSP=FFEE SS=0327
I formatted due to other problems - burnt power supply and unable to start windows. Not using a current start up disk either.

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by nepenthe Aug 22, 2002

Install process ends soon after starting with a messag to restart the machine.

by gigelul Aug 22, 2002

Hi,
Try other memory module.

by nepenthe Nov 28, 2002

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by rcom Aug 22, 2002

How far along does the setup get?

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by nepenthe Aug 23, 2002

The install ends at on fifth of the way through the "checking system for install"

by nasser_guirguis Aug 30, 2002

Sounds like a hardware problem.

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