Win98 Freezes at install, IDEA???

[H8tank]

Have this SOYO board with a celeron 533, it was working great and the other day out of the blue it wouldn't boot into windows, only safe mode.

Fdisk and formatted, attempting a fresh install, and now it's freezing at the same place everytime, right in the "WINDOWS IS SETTING UP YOUR HARDWARE AND AND PLUG AND PRAY DEVICES YOU MAY HAVE.

This board has onboard video and sound, I've tried different RAM, I've unplugged floppy and CD-ROM, went to defaults in BIOS... I'm beginning to think maybe the CPU went south, but I do not have another to try.

I'm running out of ideas, do you have any?

 

[dvch]

Try disabling the onboard audio in you bios.

 

[H8tank]

Good idea... disabled the AC97 modem and soundcard in the bios and now it finally gets past that stage, but now freezes one minute into it at the SETTING UP HARDWARE.

This is too frustrating. :|

 

[Nih]

Ran into this problem the other day, A cel400 , abit slocket on a be6-2 v.1 board, pulled the cel and threw it into a shuttle av11 and it ran nice as pie. If you're running a slocket, the problem (finger's crossed)could lie there... if it's a socket soyo,, Your board might be to blame,,,,,Btw it was a bad be6-2 on my end.

 

[Nih]

If you can get into safemode, If you can access your registry, Find the run once key and delete the setup string. I don't know why but it works.

 

[H8tank]

Well, in the RUNONCE key there are about 50 entries all pertaining to windows installation items I take it. I deleted a few that referenced set-up, but no change.

I installed a PCI vid vard, disabled all on board crap, and it's doing the same thing.

AAHHHH!!!! What's going on here?

 

[Tonec]

Did you disable virus checking in the bios first?

 

[H8tank]

Yeah Tonec, been all through there...

Did find the fix though through a helpful link provided on another bbs.

It is interesting how the long hard tedious tasks of trouble shooting go out the window when looking for a quick fix.

Had to go through and try a ton of things and through trial and error found the second serial port is bad.

Don't ask me, it's a new one to me too... but sure enough, disable that bad boy in the Device Mgr or BIOS and everything works smooth as silk.

 

[Nih]

ahhhhhhh! wtg