Hi.
I bought an Athlon (650) computer mounted on a FIC SD11 motherboard, 256K of ram, 20.5 GB hard drive about 7 months ago from some mom and pop shop (a shop that my family has used for over 10 years)...
I wished to install W2K at the time. So the OEM attempted to put the OS on the system. Using a vanilla graphics card he could not get the machine to boot into W2K (nor using my TNT2 card). Unfortunately, I can't rember what the message was (memory dump, I think). AFter replacing the motherboard and memory, he finallyblamed W2K as being too finicky and there was probably some incompatible that he couldn't immediately find... I said fine, give me W98.
Fast forward to the present. I am attempting to put NT on the system (dual boot) and I am running into a similiar problem: I shoved the NT disc in the CD drive, it copied those files onto the boot partition and then rebooted to finish the setup.... but everytime that blue screen came up, the thing crashed.
So here is my question: Can a faulty cpu run file W98 fine but have problems with an NT kernel? Any other ideas? I am probably being too vague here, I realize....
I bought an Athlon (650) computer mounted on a FIC SD11 motherboard, 256K of ram, 20.5 GB hard drive about 7 months ago from some mom and pop shop (a shop that my family has used for over 10 years)...
I wished to install W2K at the time. So the OEM attempted to put the OS on the system. Using a vanilla graphics card he could not get the machine to boot into W2K (nor using my TNT2 card). Unfortunately, I can't rember what the message was (memory dump, I think). AFter replacing the motherboard and memory, he finallyblamed W2K as being too finicky and there was probably some incompatible that he couldn't immediately find... I said fine, give me W98.
Fast forward to the present. I am attempting to put NT on the system (dual boot) and I am running into a similiar problem: I shoved the NT disc in the CD drive, it copied those files onto the boot partition and then rebooted to finish the setup.... but everytime that blue screen came up, the thing crashed.
So here is my question: Can a faulty cpu run file W98 fine but have problems with an NT kernel? Any other ideas? I am probably being too vague here, I realize....
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