Hi Folks, Well I'm back to my son's box still trying to get 8.1 installed. Here is the gist of the guts :-)
It's an FIC motherboard (va-503+) w/192 mg. of ram. Now the memory consists of 2 sticks,1 is a 128 mg of crucial ram that is cl2. The other is a stick I bought from Tiger Direct. I've also got an ATI RAge 128 Pro (AGP card). In addition there is a Teac cdr along with another cdrom. The hd is a WD unit. Oh..and the bios is by award..version je-439 (if this helps). There is also a nic card that needs to go in,whch isn't in there at the moment. All of this is in an AT type case... The errors are seg faults.."seems like memory is missing"..lots of sig 11's,,hmm a few other wordings but it sounds like the themes are the same across all of them. I've tried a # of different settings..video shadowing off/on,turned the caches off/on,the pci burst settings and a variety of other things that don't seem to come to mind at the moment. Re-set the ram to cl3 ( took out what I percieved as the cheaper ram (the tiger) and used just the crucial)....pnp off/on..irq manual/auto. Darn near all of 'em I think..lol. Bios defaults..set-up defaults...gee have I missed any..lol. I'm sure I have but you get the point :-) I even tried taking the drive to another box,loaded 8.1 (gaming edition) and put it back in the machine (it didn't like my trickery) to no avail. As I'm not sure which direction to go next I thought I'd post my problem here. The boy had 98se on there before and I REALLY REALLY don't wanna admit defeat and re-install that !! Win4Lin,sure..but straight 98..NO !! Now..I'm thinking maybe pull out the cdr (set as sec. master and where I'm installing from) and try again ? I have a PCI video card I can try ? Anyway..if anyone has managed to get past issues such as this I'd really love to know how it was done,or be pointed to the correct docs to work it out on my own. I spent 12+ hours trying to deal w/this the day before y'day before I come crying to the list..lol. Thank you all once again..so very much for your time :-) Lee
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