First post, by athlon-power
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I am using Windows 98 FE on my Pentium III build, and all was going full steam ahead until I got to the first bootup. After I entered the Win98 key, it crashed to a BSOD. I formatted the HDDs, and tried again, but now I can't even get to the screen to enter the key in the first place. All it does is this:
I have removed every single card except the video card, which is a known working one. I am installing Windows 98 from the WIN98 directory copied off of the CD and onto my second HDD (Quantum Bigfoot TX). The RAM has been tested and is good.
Current specs are as follows:
Intel Pentium III Katmai @500MHz (SL35E)
128MB PC100 (2x 64MB 100MHz Sticks)
nVidia TNT2 32MB AGP (non-M64)
OS: Quantum Fireball CR 6.4AT
DATA: Quantum Bigfoot TX 4.0AT
iomega ZIP 100 IDE
Samsung SC-148F CD-ROM
Known Good, Tested 170W Dell PSU
1x 12V 80mm DC Case Fan connected to motherboard via 3-pin fan connector
1x 12V 80mm DC Case Fan connected to PSU via 2-pin Molex
1x 12V DC CPU Fan connected to motherboard via 3-pin fan connector (unknown specific size)
Original specs (before I started jerking things out of it) had the addition of these:
Creative Labs Soundblaster Live! 5.1 PCI SB0100 (stand-in for OG SB Live!)
Compaq OEM Texas Instruments PCI 10/100 Ethernet Card (number on main chip is TNETE100APCM)
US Robotics Model 0727 PCI Dial-Up Modem
Why do I mention everything down to the fans here? I am wondering if I am not overloading the PSU. I am using every available molex connection that the poor thing has. I was concerned about the 170W ceiling after realizing I had a Bigfoot, a Fireball, a ZIP drive, a CD-ROM drive, and a 12V fan connected to the PSU, not withstanding the two other fans connected via the motherboard, the CPU itself, and all those expansion cards I had hooked up.
It still, however, BSODs with all of those cards removed. I have PnP disabled in BIOS. That's all I can think of right now.
Where am I?