From: "Jeff Pilch" :Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 1:46 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] can't clean install windows me or 98se


> Hello,
>
> I can't clean install Windows Me or 98se,
> and hope you may have some suggestions.
>
> I have a Gigabyte GA-5SMM motherboard,
> BIOS Award 4.51PG, AMD K6-2 100/400 MHz,
> 1 64MB PC100 DIMM, WD AC8400R 8GB hard
> disk C:, and Quantum Fireball CR4.3A
> 4GB hard disk drive D:.
>
> During POST, I disabled quick boot, and
> the single 64MB PC100 DIMM shows ok on
> all three passes of the memory test.
>
> I used a DOS 7.1 (FAT32) boot disk and
> formatted drive C. I included /TESTMEM:ON
> for HIMEM.SYS in CONFIG.SYS, and no errors
> appear. Everthing booted up fine, and I
> inserted the WinMe CD in drive F. Setup
> started ok, but soon I got error:
>
> SUWIN caused a GPF in module COMCTL31.DLL
> at 0003:0E49.
>
> Then I re-formatted drive C, and inserted
> the Win98SE CD in drive F. I created
> C:\WINDOWS\OPTIONS\CABS and copied F:\WIN98
> to it. Setup started ok, but then got error:
>
> Fatal exception 0D at 05A4:00000218.
>
> I searched the Microsoft Knowledge Base,
> www.windowstrouble.com, www.fixwindows.com,
> and www.nospin.com for "SUWIN" and "fatal
> exception 0D" but found nothing relevant.
>
> Any suggestions what to try next?
>
> Thanks, Jeff
>

Jeff,

You might try going into the BIOS and disabling the processor cache.  Bob
Wright suggested this to another lister who had SUWIN problems and it
worked.  Windows installs very slowly but does install.  Once you have
installed windows again you can enable the processor cache.

Mary Wolden

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