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Okay. First, a little background information.
I have built my first computer from parts that I bought at
the local computer store. I have put it all together and
everything seemed to work.
I partitioned the hard drive into two drives (C:\ 2% of
120GB for the OS and D:\ 98% of 120 GB). I also formatted
everything and copied command.com to C: so it would boot.
All the hardware seems to be installed properly and it
doesn't seem to be damaged in any way.
This is what I'm running:
-LG 16x dvd-rom
-Floppy drive
-OEM Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse
-our old moniter
-330 Watt Power Supply
-120 GB Maxtor 2 MB cache Hard drive
-Gigabyte Radeon 9200SE 8x agp video card
-AMD Athlon XP Barton core 2800 w/ heatsink and fan
-512 Mb of pc3200 ddr ram
-Gigabyte k7 triton ga-7s748 motherboard with the sis 748
chipset for amd athlon xp processors
So thats about it for background info.
Now, things I've already tried.
I've tried installing Windows XP by booting from the cd
and by starting it from the six windows xp start-up disks.
All the times I've tried this it came up with an error in
the file dmboot.sys.
Specifically it said that there was a
PAGE_FAULT_IN_A_NON_PAGED_AREA.
It did this when I tried it from both the floppy and the
cd and even after I had formatted the HDD. (Weird eh?)
So, I looked it up on the internet and somewhere it said
that Windows XP can't be installed from DOS so I tried
installing our copy of Windows 98. From Win98 I'd upgrade
to WinXP.
After installing pretty much all of windows 98 i had to
restart the computer before it could finish installing the
drivers. So it restarts and after the win98 splash screen
it goes black and displays "Windows Protection Error. You
Must Restart Windows".
So I restart the computer and the same thing happens.
While the screen is black if I hit a few keys on the
keyboard the computer beeps and say that there was a STACK
overflow error and to go into config.sys and change the
stacks.
I haven't figured the stacks out yet but as for the
protection error, if I go through a set-by-set startup of
all the drivers and I don't start msmouse.vxd Windows set
up finishes to load but then an error comes up.
It says that Windows might be able to continue normally or
that i can push Ctrl + Alt + Delete to restart. In this
error message it usually mentions a vxd file (possibly
msmouse.vxd ???).
Thats most of everything I've tried. I've formatted C:\
again so I can try this once more.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have built my first computer from parts that I bought at
the local computer store. I have put it all together and
everything seemed to work.
I partitioned the hard drive into two drives (C:\ 2% of
120GB for the OS and D:\ 98% of 120 GB). I also formatted
everything and copied command.com to C: so it would boot.
All the hardware seems to be installed properly and it
doesn't seem to be damaged in any way.
This is what I'm running:
-LG 16x dvd-rom
-Floppy drive
-OEM Microsoft Keyboard and Mouse
-our old moniter
-330 Watt Power Supply
-120 GB Maxtor 2 MB cache Hard drive
-Gigabyte Radeon 9200SE 8x agp video card
-AMD Athlon XP Barton core 2800 w/ heatsink and fan
-512 Mb of pc3200 ddr ram
-Gigabyte k7 triton ga-7s748 motherboard with the sis 748
chipset for amd athlon xp processors
So thats about it for background info.
Now, things I've already tried.
I've tried installing Windows XP by booting from the cd
and by starting it from the six windows xp start-up disks.
All the times I've tried this it came up with an error in
the file dmboot.sys.
Specifically it said that there was a
PAGE_FAULT_IN_A_NON_PAGED_AREA.
It did this when I tried it from both the floppy and the
cd and even after I had formatted the HDD. (Weird eh?)
So, I looked it up on the internet and somewhere it said
that Windows XP can't be installed from DOS so I tried
installing our copy of Windows 98. From Win98 I'd upgrade
to WinXP.
After installing pretty much all of windows 98 i had to
restart the computer before it could finish installing the
drivers. So it restarts and after the win98 splash screen
it goes black and displays "Windows Protection Error. You
Must Restart Windows".
So I restart the computer and the same thing happens.
While the screen is black if I hit a few keys on the
keyboard the computer beeps and say that there was a STACK
overflow error and to go into config.sys and change the
stacks.
I haven't figured the stacks out yet but as for the
protection error, if I go through a set-by-set startup of
all the drivers and I don't start msmouse.vxd Windows set
up finishes to load but then an error comes up.
It says that Windows might be able to continue normally or
that i can push Ctrl + Alt + Delete to restart. In this
error message it usually mentions a vxd file (possibly
msmouse.vxd ???).
Thats most of everything I've tried. I've formatted C:\
again so I can try this once more.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.