If I were having trouble installing the OS, first thing I'd look at is the copy of the OS, then the drive.  Can you borrow a clean hard drive to see if your CD will install Win 98 SE on it?  Do you have a real, genuine MS copy of Win 98 SE, or did someone burn a CD copy?  A few days ago a lister had problems installing Win 2K, but could install Win 98.  Turned out he had a bad copy of Win 2K.


Just finished putting together my third system and have run into something that
>never happened to me before.  My system is as follows:
>
>Pentium III Intel Celeron 1000MB
>512 MB SDRAM
>ASUS CUV4X-E Motherboard
>Apollo Pro 133A Chipset
>NVIDIA TNT video card - 32 MB RAM
>sound card (don't remember the brand)
>US Robotics 56K modem
>
>I've loaded Windows 98 SE several times, but am unable to load many other programs.
>So, I start again with reformatting and installing.  Each time I have gotten
>the BSOD saying an exception OE has occurred at 0028:BFF95479 in VXD---.  This
>was called from 0028:C)29A71B in VXD.VWIN32(05)+00003243.  It may be possible to
>continue normally.
>
>Well, it wasn't.  Now I can only get a few seconds into the installation and I
>get a General Protection fault that says SUWIN caused a General Protection
>Fault in module USER.EXE at 0001.2B06.
>
>Also, I notice when I've been fairly successful at installing WIN 98 several
>VXD files don't load at that's when I'll either get caught in a loop that keeps
>rebooting the computer or just the BSOD.
>
>Is there something in BIOS or CMOS that I need to do?  I've been able to do
>less and less each time I try so now I can't get anywhere.
>
>I've read about resetting the CMOS, so if that's my problem I'll need step by
>step instructions.  I know some things, but there's even more I don't know.
>Any help would be appreciated.

>


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