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1. Stuck on my laptop, noes

   

   Topic by CheapAlert · Jan 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   Where'd our tech forum go? anyways... I recently attempted to install Windows 2000 Pro on my laptop (Compaq Presario 1277, K6 433, Win98SE). After setup finishes copying temporary setup files over, and restarts, I get a black screen on boot, nothing else. No input, nothing on screen, nothingly obliviously nothing. I…

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   Reply by KDR_11k · Jan 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   Maaan, our school had a one-disk network-install system, you just popped in the disk, gave it a number and it'd grab the whole installation off the server. That's the difference between Win98 and Linux for ya (the disks installed Win2k, they were using Linux to do so, though).

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   Reply by CheapAlert · Jan 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   Ok, all fixed. Apparently, my boot sector was write-protected during the install. Considering the ROM date was around 1999, it didn't prompt for it to be written. So I entered the CMOS and disabled the write protection of the boot sector, formatted C:, reinstalled Windows 98SE disk by disk (About 127 of them), get…

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   Reply by CheapAlert · Jan 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   I didn't mention I network installed Win2k and the CD-ROM drive doesn't work :O Well, anyways i formatted C: and now attempting to reinstall Win98se via floppy swapping, so er nevermind.

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   Reply by sledgy · Jan 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   Try running 2K Setup again and do a "Repair Installation"

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   Reply by sal_manilla · Jan 2005 · Home› General Discussion

   Cheapy, I got some good friends at this site....give Randy and his gang a try at http://www.netwerkin.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi? Tell 'em Sal sent ya! (big deal eh?)