Help. System refuses to accept OS

[Squisher]

I think this is a hardware issue.

Daughter who never saw a piece of spyware she didn't like and had ever diminishing functionality now says her system infested with trojan horses and stops working completely.

She has a ton of data she wants to save so I figure I'll install a new HD and use the old one as a slave to suck the data off.

Well, I have had two days failures trying to install an OS on this new HD

Win98 and Win98se have continuous failures reading cab files off the CDs (I even swapped out CDROMs and CDs) I know these CDs are in good shape.

WinXP and the WinXP BOOT DISK SET (6 disks) get to the end of the install and says "bios not ACPI compliant"

WTF I even flashed the bios to no avail.

System info:
MOBO Soltek 75drv4
I swapped processors started from an 800 duron to a 1.4 that I under clocked to 1050
Matrox G450


All I have left to swap out is mem, and vid card.

I'm wondering if a virus got into the bios? Any Ideas?

 

[montag451]

bad hdd?

 

[Trashman]

Try copyin Win98 cd to hard drive, and run setup from hd.
i had to google a "how-to", thought i had a better link, but this will do....LINK.

also for that XP problem, only thing i can say on that is to check BIOS and see if ACPI is enabled.

 

[TheGreenGoblin]

Heh. What's funny is that the "Your motherboard does not have an ACPI compliant bios" is actually an indication that your ram is defective.

When a multiboot OS machine I had showed me a different blue screen error for each OS , I did the research and found MS knowledge base articles for each. Each indicated defective RAM as the possible culprit. The error msg you received was one of those.

At work I noticed the same thing on a machine , same error , and RAM was the culprit again.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: TheGreenGoblin

Heh. What's funny is that the "Your motherboard does not have an ACPI compliant bios" is actually an indication that your ram is defective.

When a multiboot OS machine I had showed me a different blue screen error for each OS , I did the research and found MS knowledge base articles for each. Each indicated defective RAM as the possible culprit. The error msg you received was one of those.

At work I noticed the same thing on a machine , same error , and RAM was the culprit again.

I think we have a winner. Just got the boot disks to go all the way through to the end after I removed one stick.

Hmmm. Crucial DDR too.

 

[TheGreenGoblin]

I've had a Crucial stick go bad on me too once. Luckily they're pretty fast when it comes to RMA replacement.