I bought two identical pc's.Both are IBM Aptiva 2153-e3u,
K6 350MHz(512KB) 64MB 8GB HDD IDE PCI/ISA Microtwr(2X4) ATI onboard graphics and sound. They came with no ram or hard drives.I threw 64 mb ram in each and new used hard drives.
Checked fdisk and both hdd's had only one partition each.
None hidden. Format C: both.Went well. Put full retail win 98se in and tried to clean install.Got as far as installing then all hell broke loose.Says wrong drivers for vga then halts.Then wrong driver they don't match.Then wrong something else and so on.Retried again and again to reinstall and had to format C again and again.
Did checks on net and seems these computers originally came with recovery cd and something called ConfigSafe and so on.
But I installed new hdd so do they have a chip or something that stops you from installing without their disks? I checked the bios over and over again. Nothing.
How can I do a fresh install of Win 98 on these.
K6 350MHz(512KB) 64MB 8GB HDD IDE PCI/ISA Microtwr(2X4) ATI onboard graphics and sound. They came with no ram or hard drives.I threw 64 mb ram in each and new used hard drives.
Checked fdisk and both hdd's had only one partition each.
None hidden. Format C: both.Went well. Put full retail win 98se in and tried to clean install.Got as far as installing then all hell broke loose.Says wrong drivers for vga then halts.Then wrong driver they don't match.Then wrong something else and so on.Retried again and again to reinstall and had to format C again and again.
Did checks on net and seems these computers originally came with recovery cd and something called ConfigSafe and so on.
But I installed new hdd so do they have a chip or something that stops you from installing without their disks? I checked the bios over and over again. Nothing.
How can I do a fresh install of Win 98 on these.
