FYI __ My MS Office 2000 installation problem was... BAD MEMORY __

[Blain]

I know that nobody asked about it. But I had a problem installing MS Office 2000 (small business edition).

The Problem
* The program would only install up to a certain point and then reboot the system without warning.

Attempts At A Fix
* I tried using different CD drives for loading
* I reloaded 98SE instead of the 98 that was installed (reformatted twice)
* I backed down the CPU to default speed (was Celeron 533 @ 800, PCI & AGP both in spec)
* I set the BIOS settings to default (un-tweaked)

After setting the BIOS to default I got several beeps during the boot-up.

Final Solution To The Fix
* I pulled the three 128mb DIMMs out and replaced them with a single 256mb stick.

The system...
* Gigabyte GA-6VX-4X (Apollo Pro 133A)
* Celeron 533 (on an Abit slocket)
* 8.4 WD HD
* Diamond TNT2 AGP
* AWE64
* Lucent modem
* Sparkle 235W PS

🙂 I hope this information can help somebody else 🙂

 

[ScrewFace]

I'm sure it will. Thanks for posting your problem and your fix for it. Keep up the good work!🙂

 

[Blain]

This was an extremely frustrating problem because it wasn't my system. But I had been OCing it and tweaked it for a friend.
I'm glad it was a memory problem and not something I did. It had two 128mb sticks of "LD" and one 128mb stick of Tonicom BGA. I'll do some testing on the DIMMs, but it's probably one of the LD sticks that's gone south. They were cheapies to begin with.

 

[bacillus]

glad to hear its been sorted!

 

[mcveigh]

I had the same problem recently, a stick of pc2100 from crucial went bad in my 8kha+

this was one of the most agravating experiences ever.
FYI you can use Memtest86 to test your memory for errors.