OK, as of around midnight last night, I am totally screwed.
I've been having a problem that some of you have been helping me with. I swapped out an old NEC mobo / P2-300 for an Abit BH6 / Cele 300 oc'd to 450. I did this without reinstalling windows, and was having some moderate hardware problems, such as the IDE controllers not being recognized by Win98se, and being forced into dos-compatibility mode. Sort of irritating, but the computer was working.
After a month or so of troubleshooting, I was unable to fix the problems. Last night, I tried a fix that has been suggested by several helpful people here. I deleted the ENUM key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry, to force win98se to reload all of the drivers.
After rebooting, Windows kept locking up as it was trying to detect and load drivers for new hardware devices. It was truly frustrating. I kept having to hard reboot, and did this about 6 times or so.
Finally, I threw up my hands and decided I would just have to reformat and reinstall windows, which many suggested I probably should have done in the first place. I have a master drive with win98se on it, and a slave drive with some of my programs on it, so reformatting the c: drive wouldn't be disastrous.
After formatting the drive, though, I have been unable to install windows. I can get into the setup program on the cd (in dos), but after it does the various system checks, it is locking up as it begins to copy files, not necessarily in the same place each time. This happened about 3 or 4 times before I had to go to bed for fear of jumping out of a window.
I have done several scandisks (which setup does automatically), including a complete surface scan, of the hd. No problems reported.
Please offer any suggestions!
I've been having a problem that some of you have been helping me with. I swapped out an old NEC mobo / P2-300 for an Abit BH6 / Cele 300 oc'd to 450. I did this without reinstalling windows, and was having some moderate hardware problems, such as the IDE controllers not being recognized by Win98se, and being forced into dos-compatibility mode. Sort of irritating, but the computer was working.
After a month or so of troubleshooting, I was unable to fix the problems. Last night, I tried a fix that has been suggested by several helpful people here. I deleted the ENUM key in the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE registry, to force win98se to reload all of the drivers.
After rebooting, Windows kept locking up as it was trying to detect and load drivers for new hardware devices. It was truly frustrating. I kept having to hard reboot, and did this about 6 times or so.
Finally, I threw up my hands and decided I would just have to reformat and reinstall windows, which many suggested I probably should have done in the first place. I have a master drive with win98se on it, and a slave drive with some of my programs on it, so reformatting the c: drive wouldn't be disastrous.
After formatting the drive, though, I have been unable to install windows. I can get into the setup program on the cd (in dos), but after it does the various system checks, it is locking up as it begins to copy files, not necessarily in the same place each time. This happened about 3 or 4 times before I had to go to bed for fear of jumping out of a window.
I have done several scandisks (which setup does automatically), including a complete surface scan, of the hd. No problems reported.
Please offer any suggestions!
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