First post, by Richy85
So bought a Packard Bell Club 30 recently which would be my third - but this one came with original mouse, keyboard, manuals and books including restore media as well as monitor and speakers etc.
Tbh I was less bothered about the PC so much as I was with getting all the extras to make a full original of all the extras.
But hey ho, figured I'll get it up and running anyways.
Had a dead PSUand HDD so swapped those out and reinstalled the original OEM OS.
Everything seemed to be ok although had some issues originally so re-formatted the drive and reinstalled.
On the loading of the win 98 'getting ready to run windows for the first time screen' some odd stuff started happening with the screen. Eventually the picture just went and was left with a black screen with purple vertical lines.
Tried another monitor and the same.... So figure the on board gfx has just died 🙁
No matter, I put in an ati rage PCI gfx card and all was well with the world however every time I get past the 'getting ready to run windows for the first time' screen I get a darker blue desktop screen with a cursor and it just freezes completely.
I tried reinstallin the OS again but exact same thing....
Any ideas?
Would be nice to try and get it working