Greetings everyone 😀 I've been working on a Win98 SE gaming machine here. The specs of the system are as follows: ASUS P3B-F 1.04 (1008.004 beta BIOS), PIII 500, 128 MB PC133 SDRAM (tested with memtest86), Voodoo 3 3000 AGP, AWE64 Value, NEC ND-4551A DVD drive, and a Transcend 16GB 133x CF card connected through an IDE adapter. I also used to have a generic PCI network card in there, but it seemed to cause problems at bootup so I left it out for now.

Now, I'm trying to install 98 SE through a boot disc. I make a partition with fdisk, format C: and then run setup.exe. It goes into ScanDisc, finds numerous errors and fixes them. After that, it says its checking the registry and then something like "copying files needed for setup" and the drive spins up for a few seconds; then it basically hangs. Restarting with ctrl+alt+del works though.

Tried numerous fixes which I read about: turning off the virus detection in the BIOS (no avail); unplugging the Sound Blaster, underclocking the CPU and sticking the RAM into a different slot didn't help either, and lastly, I tried to copy the CD (the drive is being detected as R:, is that normal?) to C: through the command line, which was weird because it produced corrupt folder names and stuff on occasion. I could access the folder sometimes though, but running setup would only hang the computer just after pressing enter... and each time after rebooting, none of the files are to be found on C. So I'm guessing it's a driver issue or something, because I can't imagine that a brand new CF is bad after just formatting it a few times. OK, this message may be really convoluted, but I would be glad if some of you guys could help me 😁