have tried everything but windows wont install completely

[yvonne707]

We have tried it all. We partitioned and repartitioned, we formatted and reformatted and we are still having the same problem installing windows 98.
We have 2 different disks for windows 98 and have realized it is not the cd's since it is stopping at the same place. It gets past the finding plug and play and then goes to "installing plug and play and non plug and play hardware" and proceeds to stop and then the computer restarts and after about 5 times of that, i get this blue screen

an expection 0E has occured at 0028:c000a9eb in VxD
this was called from 0028:c0059987

If anyone has any idea what is causing this or how to go around it please feel free to tell me

thx

[TheCrazGod]

memory???

[andy1984]

Memory, cd or hard disk problem. I had an old windows cd, which stopped at certain areas during installation, I've also had memory which has caused the bsod during installation. It could also be failing to write to hard disk

I would try taking everything uneccessary out during installation, and try using only 1 stick of ram if you were using 2. It may be ram problems but it doesnt necessarily mean both are bad

[stroyal]

Test your mem with this
http://www.memtest86.com/

Just to add to your confusion, I had the same problem last mounth with win98 and it was the power supply.

[Foggy]

Run Kill Disk http://www.killdisk.com/

then run fdisk to partition , then format C:

[Incânus]

What hardware do you have in your system? Can you list your specs?

[JerryReis]

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Originally Posted by Incânus

What hardware do you have in your system? Can you list your specs?

if you can give us this info, I bet we can figure out what the problem is,