Hardware Failure Win 98 to Win2K upgrade

[Michael]

Upgrading from Win 98 to Win2K professional, all went fine
until Win2K was installing components, received a hardware
failure blue screen after my monitor blanked out twice.
The monitor was also flashing a message frequency over
range. I have removed all peripherals except for the
mouse, keyboard and monitor hoping to fix the problem.
Anyone have any ideas - is it too late to try and recover
my Win 98 install and files?? I have a 700Mhz AMD
processor, 256K RAM, upgraded ATI Radeon video card that
is supposed to be compatible...Help!!!

 

[philo]

Upgrading from Win 98 to Win2K professional, all went fine
until Win2K was installing components, received a hardware
failure blue screen after my monitor blanked out twice.
The monitor was also flashing a message frequency over
range. I have removed all peripherals except for the
mouse, keyboard and monitor hoping to fix the problem.
Anyone have any ideas - is it too late to try and recover
my Win 98 install and files?? I have a 700Mhz AMD
processor, 256K RAM, upgraded ATI Radeon video card that
is supposed to be compatible...Help!!!

at this point you cannot go back to your old win98 installation

you can deltree your windows and/or winnt folders
and try a clean install of either win2k (or win98 if you left it as fat32)
*without formatting the drive*
and at least be able to keep your data

 

[suhail]

-----Original Message-----
Upgrading from Win 98 to Win2K professional, all went fine
until Win2K was installing components, received a hardware
failure blue screen after my monitor blanked out twice.
The monitor was also flashing a message frequency over
range. I have removed all peripherals except for the
mouse, keyboard and monitor hoping to fix the problem.
Anyone have any ideas - is it too late to try and recover
my Win 98 install and files?? I have a 700Mhz AMD
processor, 256K RAM, upgraded ATI Radeon video card that
is supposed to be compatible...Help!!!
.

when you are upgrading from win98 to win2000, you can run
compatibility tool. go to microsoft wesbite and download
Microsoft Readiness Analyzer. See if there is any hardware
and software incompatibility. if there is any harware
compatibility remove that hardware and install the OS. if
there is any software compatibilit remove that software
and install the OS. disable any onboard devices. anyway
good luck!!!!1