- Apr 5, 2001
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I am trying to revive an old mobo / cpu combo i found a few weeks ago in my garage all boxed up with dust on it. But after trying it the win98SE way and then the win2k method, both come to a screeching stop when the setup files are starting to load up.
The hardware in question are:
ABIT BX6 Rev.1,
CPU Intel Pentium II 300A running all stock on 300 mhz for now. (this mobo/cpu combo OC'd nicely to 504mhz but for troubleshooting purposes im leaving it stock)
RAM: 256mb pc100
Hardware wise everything is connected and working great. The board post on boot up fine. The correct memory is shown, the cdrom drive is found and the harddrive as well. I have updated to the most recent released BIOS update, that will allow the system to recognise 40gb drive and bigger... and it sees my 40gb drive fine.
So now trying to load win98se first, after loading the setup files about 30% it stops saying:
"Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS extender"
In google i looked it up and it said this:
This error message occurs when the Kernel generates a processor exception during initialization (before it has installed its own exception handlers) or when the Kernel determines that it cannot handle an exception. The causes are the same as those for the "Fault in MS-DOS Extender" error.
It does not say what to do or if i can get around this issue.
Now in win2k, during the setup file loading process it will quit about 10 secs into the load process and halt with a Stop error.
So even tho i have the most recent bios version and all the hardware seemingly works, am i screwed and cannot make this system run afterall? (I was hopeing to just make it a decent browsing machine for in the garage on my workbench incase i needed to look something up while working out there ect)
thx for any ideas in advance!
The hardware in question are:
ABIT BX6 Rev.1,
CPU Intel Pentium II 300A running all stock on 300 mhz for now. (this mobo/cpu combo OC'd nicely to 504mhz but for troubleshooting purposes im leaving it stock)
RAM: 256mb pc100
Hardware wise everything is connected and working great. The board post on boot up fine. The correct memory is shown, the cdrom drive is found and the harddrive as well. I have updated to the most recent released BIOS update, that will allow the system to recognise 40gb drive and bigger... and it sees my 40gb drive fine.
So now trying to load win98se first, after loading the setup files about 30% it stops saying:
"Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS extender"
In google i looked it up and it said this:
This error message occurs when the Kernel generates a processor exception during initialization (before it has installed its own exception handlers) or when the Kernel determines that it cannot handle an exception. The causes are the same as those for the "Fault in MS-DOS Extender" error.
It does not say what to do or if i can get around this issue.
Now in win2k, during the setup file loading process it will quit about 10 secs into the load process and halt with a Stop error.
So even tho i have the most recent bios version and all the hardware seemingly works, am i screwed and cannot make this system run afterall? (I was hopeing to just make it a decent browsing machine for in the garage on my workbench incase i needed to look something up while working out there ect)
thx for any ideas in advance!