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I'm trying to set up an old desktop for someone who's currently
running Win 95 on a 486 with a 14.4k modem. ;-)
The box I have is a P5-133, 64 MB RAM, and it comes with
something called "EZ BIOS". This last item is causing me all kind
of headaches.
I'm trying to set up the box's original copy of Win 98 SE on a
3GB hard drive that has been formatted. I can boot from the Win98
CD and never see any trace of this EZ BIOS thing, but once I've
installed 98 to the stage of the first reboot, then as soon as
I've selected 'boot from hard drive', it announces itself, tells
me I can hold down CTRL to see the status screen or boot from the
(non-existent) floppy drive, and then carries on booting. The
Windows splash screen appears normally, but stays up longer than
I would expect, and after a minute or two, I get a text screen
that asks me to key in the path to the command processor. Nothing
I've tried here makes any difference, all I can do is reboot.
I've booted the PC from the CD again and all the expected files,
visible and hidden, do appear to be on the C: drive. The hard
drive will work OK in another PC, one without this EZ BIOS, I can
install 98 there without a problem, but for obvious reasons I
would prefer not to make the system disk on one PC then use it in
another, with different specifications.
Does anyone have any experience with this EZ BIOS thing? I've
looked through the BIOS menus to see whether I can find some way
of telling it to mind its own damn business once Windows gets a
hold of itself, but with no success.
Any ideas gratefully received - except please don't tell me to
have them buy a new box. That's not an option.
Thanks,
Brian.
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I'm trying to set up an old desktop for someone who's currently
running Win 95 on a 486 with a 14.4k modem. ;-)
The box I have is a P5-133, 64 MB RAM, and it comes with
something called "EZ BIOS". This last item is causing me all kind
of headaches.
I'm trying to set up the box's original copy of Win 98 SE on a
3GB hard drive that has been formatted. I can boot from the Win98
CD and never see any trace of this EZ BIOS thing, but once I've
installed 98 to the stage of the first reboot, then as soon as
I've selected 'boot from hard drive', it announces itself, tells
me I can hold down CTRL to see the status screen or boot from the
(non-existent) floppy drive, and then carries on booting. The
Windows splash screen appears normally, but stays up longer than
I would expect, and after a minute or two, I get a text screen
that asks me to key in the path to the command processor. Nothing
I've tried here makes any difference, all I can do is reboot.
I've booted the PC from the CD again and all the expected files,
visible and hidden, do appear to be on the C: drive. The hard
drive will work OK in another PC, one without this EZ BIOS, I can
install 98 there without a problem, but for obvious reasons I
would prefer not to make the system disk on one PC then use it in
another, with different specifications.
Does anyone have any experience with this EZ BIOS thing? I've
looked through the BIOS menus to see whether I can find some way
of telling it to mind its own damn business once Windows gets a
hold of itself, but with no success.
Any ideas gratefully received - except please don't tell me to
have them buy a new box. That's not an option.
Thanks,
Brian.
--
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