I am danger ...the female kind ....need HELP!

[Neos]

I have a problem, that the answer is probably so simple. but please help if you can.

OK ...I have an old SCSI 2.4 Gig w/ an Adaptec card on a Soyo 5EHM board / AMD K6-3 400.
I have fdisked from A: / deleted all partitions / added primary DOS partition / activated the partition / re-booted, then formatted C: using the /s /u switches, and tried to reload Win95 with a recurring problem.
(First off, I use a Win98 boot disc from my other system to get going ..as it has the Oak CD rom driver on it.)

OK ...here is what I get after all of Win95 is loaded ...and it goes to re-boot.

WHILE INITIALIZING IOS
WINDOWS PROTECTION ERROR. YOU NEED TO RESTART YOUR COMPUTER.

So I reboot again, putting a Win95 boot disc in. It boots to A:, I go to C:, then WIndows, and type in WIN ..being careful to use my pause/enter to get it all ...and I get the message below.

REGISTRY FILE NOT FOUND. REGISTRY SERVICES MAY BE INOPERATIVE FOR THIS SESSION.
XMS CACHE PROBLEM. REGISTRY SERVICES MAY BE INOPERABLE FOR THIS SESSION.

That is about it. Oddly enough, I had this same problem while trying to re-load windows on my brother-in-laws machine over Labor Day.
Please help.



Neos (Andrew in AL)

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[Neos]

Bump!

Please give me a hand. My wife wants her system going.

Neos

 

[shathal]

Urm - minor point, if I may add.

If you have a W98 disk, why don't you install W98 on it? W95 is inferior to W98 in pretty much every way.

I wouldn't really recommend using SCSI with either Win 9X/ME - they're not really great with that sort of thing.
I've no idea why your 95 build dies (that machine DID have 95 on it before, RIGHT?).

You MIGHT want to try the following mayhap.

Create a directory on the HD (for instance: C:\Win98cab or C:\win95cab - depending on OS). Then, copy into that the contents of the WIN98 / WIN95 directory (all the *.CAB files, etc.). Then you can simply run the SETUP.EXE from the HD - will go much faster than a CD-ROM install and you won't need the CD in the future either - just point to the directory in question when W98/W95 demands some system files.

Might have something to do with the fact that W95 doesn't load a driver for the SCSI-controller would be my guess.

Why don't you try using IDE-drives? A small 4GB drive should be quite. quite cheap nowadays .

Hope this helps somewhat.

 

[Zepper]

You are having the infamous AMD (>=350MHz) timing problem. You need to set your cpu clock back to 300 or 333. For Win95 to work on cpu faster than 300 or so, you have to have installed Win95-B (or greater) and install the AMD timing patch (found on AMD web site). After you have installed the patch, you can set the cpu clock back to full speed. I don't think Win98 or higher needs the patch.
SCSI works fine with any version of Win--usually far more reliable than IDE. Just keep up with latest drivers.
.bh.
p.s. Note the list of files that are installed by the patch and watch every time that you install other drivers to be sure older versions aren't installed over them. bh.

 

[Neos]

Thanks guys ...
Well, this is just an old machine that I have for my wife to piddle on right now. The HD is an old 5 1/2 tall Seagate ...built like a tank. Heck, I have all the parts, so I figure ...why not use them.

Actually, I had this setup just like this years back ...the SCSI with the AMD (then a 333) on the 5EHM ...and it worked fine. That was before I went to the Duron system I am on now.

I will do that in the dropping back to 300 ...and go from there. Now that I recall ...seems like I had to do that before.

I used to see an Oak CD setup that you could add to the boot disk. I have it on the 98 boot disc, but am not sure which files to move to the 95 boot disc. Anyone know of this.

Oh ...I use 95B on this, because the driver for the Adaptec works right. Never got it to work good with 98SE. (always yellow exclam. mark & ?)

Neos