I'm a builder of PC's and therefore do not attempt many repairs on machines other than my own.  However, a friend has lured me into trying to upgrade a Compaq Presario 4112.

The machine has a Non-Dos partition on it.  I assume this is reserved for Compaq's BIOS.  The other partition is the Primary Dos.

I have downloaded every SoftPaq and Driver from Compaq's web site for this machine.

Scenario 1 - I reformatted the Primary Dos Partition and attempted the Win 98 install.  Everything went okay until I reached 16% remaining of the Win 98 install.  (This is after the windows driver database has initialized and hardware is about to be detected and installed.)  The machine stops.  Re-booting doesn't help.  The machine continually freezes at 16% remaining in the Win 98 install.

Scneario 2 - I booted up with a Win 98 start-up diskette.  Using the FDISK command I deleted all partitions on the hard drive, rebooted, and (using the FDISK command) created one Primary Dos partition.  The install went as before - okay until it locked up with 16% remaining.

Scenario 3 - I substituted another hard drive that I know is good and repeated the steps in Scenario 2.  The same thing happened.

Is this a Compaq issue or a hardware issue?

Please Advise!

Dan Davis

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