I am going nuts!!! ****Now I am OK****

[olds]

I had a bad install on Win2K. Logitech drivers brought my once mighty machine to it's knees. I formatted and I am now installing win 98 for the 3rd time. It keeps acting wierd and nothing seems right. I fdisked (2 partitions) and formatted both. I am now at the A prompt, where do I go from here? This machine has me scard to try anything as nothing seems to work. :disgust:

 

[Kinesis]

What was the problem with the Logitech drivers? How is your system acting "strange'? Some specifics would help.

I would recommned W2k if you are not doing any gaming. More current drivers and a more stable OS all around.

 

[olds]

The keyboard driver wouldn't initalize. It killed the mouse too. I had to buy a USB keyboard and borrow a usb mouse as I could no nothing. the strange acting now is I fdisk, format and then it won't load windows from the cd. I am not sure anymore if I am doing something wrong or it's the machine. What comes after the A prompt? (After fdisk and format)

 

[Kinesis]

Well ok. Do you have a W98 bootdisk? If so boot into command prompt and verify what drives you have present. Meaning are all drives & partition visible and active? I am assuming you set a partition as active on your main Hard drive in Fdisk?

USB can cause you more grief. If you are having P/S Mouse and Keyboard difficulties something more is wrong than meets the eye.

Just my experience.

In thinking about it, when you boot your computer with the Windows 2000 Install CD in the CD-ROM it should come up with a prompt for boot from CD hit any key. Press and key and get W2k to install and when if comes to choosing where to install it too select the drive and have it format it. May clear up the problems.

 

[Mikendi]

Are you running SCSI devices like CD-ROM? I had to setup Win2k from floppies to get my CD driver installed. I think you get a better install from floppies anyway you might making some.

 

[olds]

I had win2k running when I installed it from the cd. I was installing perh, software and drivers when the logitech drivers caused all the problems. I used the USB devices because ps/2 wouldn't work. After numerous attempts to uninstall and reinstall logitech, I gave up. Now I am trying to install win 98 atfer a format of the HDD. I have a 98 startup disk in the floopy and the cd in the cd. I started with cd support and was able to fdisk (2 partitions) and format the drives. They both show up and C is set as active. I had just fininshed formatting D and now I am at the A prompt. I thought I was supposed to restart and it would find the cd but it hasn't. So I sit there at A prompt waiting on some wise words as I must leave for work.

 

[olds]

I am posting from Win 98! I replied to this thread then was getting ready for work. I set down for a second, looked at the A prompt and went, DOH!! I was just to tired, frustrated last night. I needed to enter "Setup" at the prompt. What a difference a nights sleep makes.