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Experience I am the Director of Information Systems for a large law firm. I handle all sorts of hardware and software problems for over 300 users who use Windows 95/98. I also have a home network of six computers.
Question I have old Pentium (R) Pro system 200 Mhz , 384 MB Ram 20 GB HDD.
I tried to re-install windows 98 in my system.
The problem is after formatting hard disk by fdisk
whenever I try to run setup from the CD or from the hard disk
the set up stops giving messages such as
General protection fault .... or SUWIN Error
Krn;l386.exe or sometimes user.exe (White message Box)
Thus in other words the set up never starts technically only the inital screen is displayed
. Please tell me if any bios settings or dos commands are required to run before running the setup.exe or executable file
I do not require any data from hard disk as I have already taken back up on CD
Thanks
Rajat
India
Answer Hello,
Sounds like a BIOS problem. Take a look at this MS Knowledgebase article to see if it helps:
Also, you may want to see if there is a BIOS upgrade available for your system. If so, you may want to install that before trying to reinstall Windows.
