Problems re-installing win98 stuck on step 4 of 4

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sanders - 29 Sep 2004 22:11 GMT

I re-installed Windows 98 two months ago and the system
was working fine until one week ago. When I tried to turn
on the pc, it did not go thru its normal progressions. In
other words, its was not booting up. It just had a
blinking cursur underneath the text as follows;

Award Modular Bios v4,51pg, an Energy Star Ally
Copyright(c)1984-99, Award Software, Inc.
SBA0908
Intel(R) Celeron(TM)CPU at 533mhz
_ (blinking curser)

So I contacted the makers of my pc and they told me to re-
install Windows 98 again. So I began installing it again,
but now I am stuck on the last step which happens to be
step 4 of 4. (Reloading Windows 98)

Step 4 starts as follows:
1. I have started the computer with the Windows 98 start
up disk and selected BOOT WITH CD ROM SUPPORT.

MSCDEX VERSION 2.25
Copyright(c)Microsoft corp. 1986-1995. All rights
reserved.
DRIVE E: = Driver MSCD001 UNIT 0

2. I then typed E: and hit enter. Then I typed SETUP and
hit enter to start the setup as the instructions suggest.
Here below is the error that comes up:

E:\>SETUP
Bad command or file name

IT WON'T LET ME GO ANY FURTHER TO COMPLETE THE
INSTALLATION. CAN YOU PLEASE HELP, DO YOU HAVE ANY
SUGGESTIONS?
.

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anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com - 29 Sep 2004 23:46 GMT

Once you get to the E:\> type dir /p and hit enter. This
will tell you what is in the root directory of the CD. It
will give you 1 page of content listing at a time. Hit any
key to advance to the next page of content listing. Look
for the setup.exe command to make sure it is there. Also
you should have about 121 MB of *.cab and other assorted
files.

>-----Original Message-----
>I re-installed Windows 98 two months ago and the system
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***** charles - 30 Sep 2004 15:18 GMT

> I re-installed Windows 98 two months ago and the system
> was working fine until one week ago. When I tried to turn
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> but now I am stuck on the last step which happens to be
> step 4 of 4. (Reloading Windows 98)

This paragraph and the prior paragraph contradict each other.
In the first (the one that ends with "blinking curser") is an
indication of a hardware problem. The computer did not
complete the POST process and hung up just before it
should have listed the ram on your motherboard. If this is
all it could do, you would not have been able to even boot
to your Windows CD as you describe in the second
paragraph. The advice from the manufacturer was WRONG.
The person who gave you the advice was incompetent if you
have given the facts of your scenario correctly. What I
think happened is that your computer does indeed lock up
with the blinking cursor but it does not happen every time.
That is how you got so far into the install process later in
this post. There are two setup.exe files on the standard
Windows 98 install cd, one in the root directory and one in
the X:\WIN98 directory where X in the appropriate drive
letter designation. My recommendation is that you should
determine if your hardware is solid FIRST then you should
decide if you need to reinstall Windows from scratch.
You may find that the actual repair procedure is not so
dramatic.

charles.....

> Step 4 starts as follows:
> 1. I have started the computer with the Windows 98 start
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> SUGGESTIONS?
> .

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