My duel boot presario 2100 nightmere!!

Hello Friends, i have a compaq presario 2100 laptop, it is about a year and a half old, 2600 AMD 500mb of ram and had winXP on it as standard. i am trying to make a duel boot system using win98 and winXP, i have bought a fresh 20GB hard drive formatted it to FAT32 then i tried to install win98 first on the disk, it all goes fine until it reaches the part when win98 tries to install hardware and plug and play devices then i get a blue screen of death and it says (a fatal exception has occurred at 0028:FF02847B the application will now terminate) and sometimes the code is 0028:0000B91A, then the computer crashes and freezes and i have to unplug, This is really startin to get frustrating now so any help from you guys would be cool. Many Thanks Dave.

 

also i have checked in my BIOS settings to see if i can disable the plug and play but there are no settings that will let me do it. Thanks, Dave.

 

At my workplace last year, our I.T. guys tried to load Win98SE onto brand new Compaq laptops (don't recall the model at the moment) and they ran into the same problem...general protection faults & blue screens once the OS tries to look at the hardware. They told me some newer computer MOBOS simply don't support Win9x anymore, so the OS couldn't run.

I wonder what might happen if you loaded the OS onto the drive in a different computer, then swapped the drive into your Compaq box. Perhaps with the OS already fully installed, it could handle just looking for the new drivers for the new hardware? It's about all I can suggest to try.

 

I have heard that also, or something similar. Had to do with systems equipped with hyper-threading technology.

I did come across this in an article:

HP Pavillion notebook duel boot with 98SE and XP.

The Fix:
You must use the command "setup /pi" when setting up 98 so it skips the PnP
detection sequence and then later on install the appropriate drivers for
your devices manually and all should be good.

Steve

 

Hello again, so when exactly do use the (setup /pi) command to skip the PnP in the setup of win98 do i have to use the (start computer with cd support) then type it in? Thanks Again Dave.

 

Dave,

You type SETUP /PI at the Windows CD prompt. That is all the info in the article I posted that might help you.

Hope it works.

Steve