[FMC]Ravage Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 I can't seem to install windows. I'm using a bootdisk (with gcdrom.sys) and when I go to run setup...the computer just reboots...System Specs:AMD Athlon 64 3000+MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (latest bios)1GB RAMGeforce4 MX440320GB SATA HDSATA DVD Drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted December 20, 2012 Share Posted December 20, 2012 (edited) Ravage' timestamp='1355993839' post='1023358']I can't seem to install windows. I'm using a bootdisk (with gcdrom.sys) and when I go to run setup...the computer just reboots...System Specs:AMD Athlon 64 3000+MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (latest bios)1GB RAMGeforce4 MX440320GB SATA HDSATA DVD DriveTry change SATA Mode to IDE/PATA in the BIO. No SATA support at all in Win9x unless you get rloew's SATA driver (not free). Athlon 64 - OK / 1GB RAM - OK / MX440 - OK (get the compatible drivers) / 320GB HD - look at Stickies for info on limitations and the patch / DVD - irrelevant (should just "work"). Don't know about the K8N but good possibility "compatible" with appropriate Chipset drivers.Your MoBo -http://www.msi.com/product/mb/K8N-Neo2-Platinum.htmlYep - nForce3 Drivers available... Edited December 20, 2012 by submix8c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[FMC]Ravage Posted December 20, 2012 Author Share Posted December 20, 2012 Yeah I got rloew's sata/high capacity patches...but i can't even get to the point where i can install them. I'll look for an IDE setting but I don't think there is one (or it's called something weird).One weird thing I noticed is that I have 2 boot disks, 1 official (with gcdrom added) and 1 I made with FreeDOS. If I copy the Win98 CD to the hard drive with the official floppy, I can't see the folder when I boot with the FreeDOS one (and vice versa).I wonder if it's the way I partitioned it? I did it on my Windows 8 machine with EaseUS PM.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[FMC]Ravage Posted December 21, 2012 Author Share Posted December 21, 2012 Ok it looks like I may have figured it out. Win9x/dos didn't like the partitions I made so I redid them with fdisk and that seemed to taken care of the disappearing file bug. The other issue with the windows installer not launching/crashing seems to be related to gcdrom.sys. It's just a POS. I spent all day swapping drives and tweaking the autoexec.bat/config.sys files trying to find a combo that worked. I ended up just making a bootable flash drive which seems to work better anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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