On 20 Apr 98 at 16:00, Ron Taylor wrote:

> I have a VX mother board, P166, 2gig SCSI, NEC SCSI 6X CD.

  Seems reasonable.  The VX chipset is kind of mediocre, but another
listmember claims it is "buggy" and I've never found it so.  I don't
think that's a factor.

> My problem is that  when I boot from the floppy and load the cd
> drivers to start to load WIN95B 2.5,  the system hangs at the same
> place each time.  Right after it does the scandisk portion and the
> blue screen changes to black and it says "Setup is initializing"
> everything locks up.

  Drivers for a SCSI CD-ROM drive?  Well, I guess so....

> Here is what I have tried:
>     Different SCSI hard drive.
>     Different CD-Rom drive
>     Different CD-Rom load disk
>     IDE hard drive with the SCSI hard drive removed

  Have you used FDISK to create a primary partition on the hard drive
before starting up the install?  I seem to recall that I had to do
that on my machine....

David G