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Error trying to instal ME and 98

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February 9, 2002 4:23:41 PM

I recently got a new Gigabyte motherboard, a 20GB Maxtor HD, and a new stick of DDR PC2100...I am trying to install Windows ME to the new hard drive. I ran fdisk and formatted it. Used the ME boot disk to run setup from CD. It passes the scandisk (initial system check), but once it is done, I get the following error message:

Standard mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender.
EC=F8C0 CS=0397 IP=AB0D AX=F8C0 BX=1180 CX=0404
SI=0200 DI=9270 BP=0912 DS=038F ES=038F SS=038F SP=020E

Standard mode: Bad Fault in MS-DOS Extender.
Fault: 000D Stack Dump: 0367 0000 0070
Raw fault frame: EC=0344 IP=2122 CS=0053 FL=3006 SP=00EA SS=004B

I tried installing from my old 98 CD, thinking it might be a problem with the ME CD, but I get different problems. The ME boot disk creates a compressed drive on my hard drive, calls it D:, and writes a bunch of diagnostic stuff to it. Well, the version of scandisk that the 98 CD uses just hates that, and refuses to scan the drive. So I fdisk the drive again (I know of no other way to remove a compressed drive from the hard drive without an operating system) and that's when I run into more problems.

Sometimes I see different problems, like the initial scandisk run by the setup program finding damaged files on my C drive, or the computer just locking up when it starts "copying files needed for setup".

I then tried using an old stick of RAM. Same results. Then I tried installing to a different hard drive...same results. The only common denominators are the motherboard, CPU, IDE cables, power supply and graphics card.

I'm going insane...it seems like anything and everything that could go wrong already has...any help would be appreciated.

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February 9, 2002 5:51:17 PM

All i can say is don't mess with ME, get a good OS.

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February 9, 2002 9:04:14 PM

try different ide cables...
my dads friend was having problems installing windows xp, and when he called tech support, the first thing that they came up with was that he had ata-33 cables instead of ata-100 cables, and when he changed them out, magically, he had no problems.
other than that, skip installing win me....all it gave me was headaches...
but i think it is an ide cable problem..
check all the connections.
also, get the tools for your hard drive, and check the integrity of the drive, and do a low level format, and format it...
start from scratch completely from scratch..
and if the drive tools report errors...and if they report the same error over and over, meaning that you ran the tool more than once, then it would be time to contact the manufacturer for a replacement, if it is under warranty, or get a new drive.
other than that, i dont know what it could be.
hope that helps!


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