Okay, my Mobo came today so I'm upstairs putting everything together. I was very happy when I powered everything up and it ran okay. I checked the chip temp in the BIOS and it was a very chilly 30 degrees C.
So I start to setup the hard drive with a fresh clean happy install of Win98se. This is where things start to go wrong.
It gets to the point where you type in whatever name you want it to display and the made-up company you work for, anyway it started to initialize the driver database and it crashes. This is the first time this has ever happened when I install Windows. So I think that maybe the installation is bad so I format and reinty again. This is not really a time problem since we have family visiting so I go visit while the installation moves along. By the time I come back, the computer has booted back to the A:/> prompt from the Windows startup disk. I restart the comp and wait for it to do it's thing, same thing happens. The next time the installer complains about not being able to fix a problem in the registry. The thing is I formatted the disk again, there is no registry to have an error in. Very strange. Added to this heinous problem, now the sad heap won't even try to boot. It will spin up the CD-ROM and Hard Drive once, but the Floppy doesn't even burp(it was working flawlessly before all this). Luckily the Mobo came with a D-Bracket and after I plugged it in the computer appears to be hanging up at the memory check stage of the boot sequence. So I'm thinking it's bad RAM. Am I right?
