> My girlfriend's Windows 98 had the digital equivalent to a stroke, and I ran
> out of cusswords trying to re-install that OS from the CD-ROM. The computer
> is an Acer Aspire with an AMD i586 or i686 processor (K6?), 32Meg of RAM and
> a single expansion slot used by a winmodem. I successfully installed DOS 5.0,
> which tells me that the hardware is more or less OK.
Not necessarily!
DOS does NOT use over 1 meg of RAM no matter how hard it tries!
> Suggestions?
Try the install with a loaner hard drive. Test the memory, then
test the memory more. Then try with loaner memory.
Just generally helpful things to do.
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