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Solve : Windows 98 setup hangs during plug and play hardware detection? |
| Answer» <html><body><p>During install of legit copy of windows 98 on a Dell <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/3000-247722" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about 3000">3000</a>, I get as far as "plug and play hardware detection" and the system hangs. Microsoft knowledge base <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/tells-2293753" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about TELLS">TELLS</a> me to restart while holding down ctrl key and then click on start and go into system tools to perform a procedure. The restart doesn't take me to a screen with "start" - rather it takes me back to the "plug and play hardware detection" screen and then hangs again. I had this problem a long time ago with Win 98 SE and I was able to resolve this by removing all <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/additional-367648" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about ADDITIONAL">ADDITIONAL</a> ISA and PCI cards that were not necessary during build. So I removed my ISA 28.8k modem, soundblaster 16 sound card, and special ISA 8-bit card that was required for the large flatbed scanner leaving just the video card and motherboard as the bare necessities of Plug & Play guts. I was then able to install Win 98 SE and then add the cards 1 at a time with system shut down and fire it up for it to be detected by the system or have to manually configure it, always introducing 1 card at a time per shutdown and <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/reboot-1179238" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about REBOOT">REBOOT</a>, so that there were no <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/conflicts-239251" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about CONFLICTS">CONFLICTS</a>.</p></body></html> | |