Some cyrix processors after some time get messed up, i have been through
some unusual situations with cyrix processor, try to install an Intel
processor or an AMD just for testing and then try to install Windows again
it worked with me several times, good luck.
Carlos Cordeiro

http://www.itqb.unl.pt


-----Original Message-----
From: Armando Alvarez Fernandez <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 7:09 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Failure on Win95 instalation


>I have a cyrix 686, with 32MB of RAM and a 125MB HD.
>The problem is that the HD had a virus and my client ask me to reinstal
>win95, then  I low level reformated the HD, and temporay installed MSDOS
>6.2 , after that I tryed to install Win95 from the CDROM unit and all look
>like was fine until the process of windows instalation  got stalled.
>
>        Then the PC freezes, after the process of instalation says that
>was analysing system components and it is loading the instalation guide
>software. Sudently it looks like the instalation program tries to read de
>floppy unit an then apears a black box in the middle of the screen,
>without nothing inside (Maybe a warning or error measage I can not see).
>In one of my instalation tries I remember I heard a sound when the box
>appears, quite similar to the sound of alert when you are going to modify
>the Master Boot Record, but I am not sure about it.
>
>        Do you have any suggestions about what could be wrong and How to
>fix it?
>
>TIA
>
>                Armando Alvarez F.
>                Univ. Aut. de Ags.
>                Ags., MEX
>
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