At 05:24 AM 9/15/2002, Paul Ecclestone wrote:
>A friend had a problem with his computer.  I re-formatted the hard
>drive.  No problems reported.  I then installed Windows 95 (it had been functioning
>on this computer before until something happened).  No
>problem UNTIL it fires up for the first time (at the end of the
>setup).  Things go smoothly until it looks for hardware.  At this
>point it locks up.  I have re-formatted the drive again and repeated
>the installation.  Same problem.
>
>The computer itself is very basic.  No sound card, no network card, no
>CD (using a backpack CD like I did originally when it installed fine).
>
>Any suggestions?


Try turning off your L2 cache in the CMOS settings of the Bios.   Windows95
hard problems with it on some AMD and Intel Celeron CPUs.   After you
have Windows installed and running, then you can turn the L2 cache
back on.

   Bob Wright
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