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mr_pickls

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    windows 98 freezes when installing
    « on: April 29, 2009, 04:43:10 AM »
    Hello, here is my dillemma; I partitiond my hard drive and i formatted it. I want to install windows 98 SE on it. i get up to the point where it asks me if i want to make a startup disk on a floppy, in which i already have, i click on no, and then after that it says" windows in now installing", but it freezes. i cant get into safe mode, i dont know what else to do. please any help would be appreciated. thankyou.

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    Re: windows 98 freezes when installing
    « Reply #1 on: April 29, 2009, 04:53:27 AM »
    Check if the LED diode in the near of RAM memory is it red or green.
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      Re: windows 98 freezes when installing
      « Reply #2 on: April 29, 2009, 03:50:10 PM »
      what does that mean when you say
      "Check if the LED diode in the near of RAM memory is it red or green."   ?

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        Re: windows 98 freezes when installing
        « Reply #3 on: April 29, 2009, 04:52:52 PM »
        He means open up your computer and look at the motherboard, usually on startup a little bright green light lights up.

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        Re: windows 98 freezes when installing
        « Reply #4 on: April 29, 2009, 07:18:47 PM »
        Not sure why this was suggested as not all MBoards  have LED's on them...
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        Re: windows 98 freezes when installing
        « Reply #5 on: April 30, 2009, 06:12:53 AM »
        The reason is that i think RAM memory is gone.
        I had the same situation and after I changed the RAM memory i fixed the problem.
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