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by ranch-hand

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I recently added a 20G hardrive to my PC. AT the same time, added 128mg of ram and put an AMD k62 350mhz processor. Since that time I have been unable to successfully add an operating system. get SUWIN errors at differen points of install. Have tried roming new ram, removing all other cards and flasing the bios. Any clues or is just a bad hard drive.

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by lizzy

Check the following MS Knowlegde Base article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q224836
(there are no spaces in the URL)

Also, have you checked any jumper settings on the physical HD and the Master\Slave settings? Thisone is just a thought... You probably already did this.

Hope this helps.

by gigelul

Check if your HDD was correct detected in BIOS. If it is OK, use only the new HDD (delete all partitions) boot from your CD-ROM and let this to make partition or use a boot diskette from the same OS for partitioning. Work with a basic configuration for beginning and after succesfull install add one by one the additional cards.

by brian p.

I agree with the bios hard drive check. However, you changed more than the drive.Put EVERYthing But the hd back in. Start all over again.Check all jumpers on board and drives. One at a time, add in new parts. Check that your board supports your ram.That can stop everything. If you get a post with the old ram installed, I'd go with a op sys install right then. Good luck

by jereg

You don't say what your operating system is, but if it's Win95, you will have problems with an AMD chip. You need an updated IOS file. Check the AMD web site and the Microsoft web site for full instructions and downloads.

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