Need some help to all you computer experts.
I am currently building a new system for a friend. He went on Ebay and purchased a New PC Chips motherboard (new in the box even) along with a new case and a 400 watt power supply.
The board runs socket 370 processors as in Pentium 2 and Celeron but this one CAME with a VIA Giga Pro 600 mhz chip and a stick of 64 mb SD RAM.
I added out of my own pocket a 540 meg gig hard drive and a 32x CD ROM.
I hooked everything up and tried to load windows 98 (my friend says that windows 98 will work until he gets a stick of 256 SD RAM and a 40 gig Hard Drive) but windows did not want to load all the way. It keep having problems right at the detecting hardware phase.
I tracked down the problem to the stick of 64 meg SD RAM. Bad stick. So I gave a stick from my own system to him. (I am down to 128 for XP >
)
I proceed to load 98 and it worked and was stable.
I then got him a 1 gig drive and am now trying to load 98 and ME but both will not take.
Any ideas? What Am I doing wrong?
