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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