Corrupted installer?

No, I've tried 3 different versions from the driver library. And as I'm speaking I've just tried a 4th version on an installation CD that I've just found. That's locked up at 95% too.

It must be something funky with my NT4 install.

StevOnehundred, have you installed service packs? Try SP6a, it's last newest pack. Then driver.

Yes SP6a is installed and a multitude of further updates that came after it.

Also, I tried removing the network card in case there was a resource conflict, but still no joy.

Maybe it wants DX8 for NT4.0, I just have no ideas. I should repeat it myself. I do have one system with NT4.0 installed, will try my CT4620 on it.

PARUS wrote:

Maybe it wants DX8 for NT4.0....

Also tried it with and without the unofficial DX5. I don't think DX8 is available for NT4(?)

It isn't. NT4 had more focus on OpenGL.

I have distr dx8nt4.exe (don't remember exact archive name). Have saved it but never tried. Will seek on my hard drives.

Try with Intel CPU.
Try only installing driver not a complete software package.

That maybe one of the following:
- NT4 too picky about driver quality
- installer tries to execute something "illegal"
- resource conflicts associated with ACPI or overlapping IRQs
- maybe some strange behavior due to AMD isn't 100% of 100% same as Intel
- lower RAM, who knows, some early games didn't run with 128 and above memory, maybe installer a bit outdated

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Try with Intel CPU. I can try this, I have a 233 mmx Try only installing driver not a complete software package. This I have don […]
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Try with Intel CPU. I can try this, I have a 233 mmx
Try only installing driver not a complete software package. This I have done, just installing the main driver and the problem still happens

- resource conflicts associated with ACPI or overlapping IRQs As far as I can tell this area is OK
- lower RAM I can try this, I have the original 32mb stick

I'd rather not disturb the hardware, though, so I'll exhaust all other possibilties first.

In the meantime I tried installing a raid card and that had a similar result - the machine locked up almost at the end of the driver installation. What I didn't mention so far is that the system drive has a fat32 partition visible to NT (using the appropriate read/write driver from days of old) and that is where I am attempting to install the CT4620 and CMD649 drivers from.

After restoring NT, I shifted the driver installation files to C: and tried again. The raid card successfully installed. However, the sound card still wont complete installation.

I'm going to revert the NT installation back to a state before the fat32 driver was installed and see if that makes a difference.