My old computer's setup:
Intel Celeron 500MHz Socket 370 (A)
256mb Hynix pc-133 RAM
Nvidea Riva TNT2 32mb
Seagate 8mb 5200rpm?
And some old motherboard i dont know of.
But it worked before until i started experimenting with it, taking it apart, learning how coolers work and so on. And now i need it back, i need a spare computer. At first I had Windows 98 SE installed from years ago, and i managed to get it up and running with the bare minimum, a monitor and a keyboard. I then wanted to start all over again and so i did:
C:\>format c: in MS-DOS. I downloaded Win 98 SE with CD Keys because i left my disc in my old house. I also downloaded a boot disk and burned them all to disc. I then set BIOS to run boot from CDROM and it looked like it all loaded:
[DR-DOS] A:\>
i then typed d:
[DR-DOS] D:\>setup
"this is the part where im confused because i did it so many times" It first showed up that there were two drivers that might cause problems when installing windows. I continued anyway and then it said,
Initializing....
Cannot create a temporary directory.
This may be caused by too many files in the root directory.
OKAY. I tried fiddling with things for a while, trying different copies of discs, pulling molex connectors from Floppy, CDROM, and harddrives and now my system won't startup at all. I can hear the power flowing, CPU and GPU fans running. But there are no front LED lights ligthing up and there is no signal to the monitor. I can leave it for hours adn it stays the same. What can i do?
Intel Celeron 500MHz Socket 370 (A)
256mb Hynix pc-133 RAM
Nvidea Riva TNT2 32mb
Seagate 8mb 5200rpm?
And some old motherboard i dont know of.
But it worked before until i started experimenting with it, taking it apart, learning how coolers work and so on. And now i need it back, i need a spare computer. At first I had Windows 98 SE installed from years ago, and i managed to get it up and running with the bare minimum, a monitor and a keyboard. I then wanted to start all over again and so i did:
C:\>format c: in MS-DOS. I downloaded Win 98 SE with CD Keys because i left my disc in my old house. I also downloaded a boot disk and burned them all to disc. I then set BIOS to run boot from CDROM and it looked like it all loaded:
[DR-DOS] A:\>
i then typed d:
[DR-DOS] D:\>setup
"this is the part where im confused because i did it so many times" It first showed up that there were two drivers that might cause problems when installing windows. I continued anyway and then it said,
Initializing....
Cannot create a temporary directory.
This may be caused by too many files in the root directory.
OKAY. I tried fiddling with things for a while, trying different copies of discs, pulling molex connectors from Floppy, CDROM, and harddrives and now my system won't startup at all. I can hear the power flowing, CPU and GPU fans running. But there are no front LED lights ligthing up and there is no signal to the monitor. I can leave it for hours adn it stays the same. What can i do?
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