Millennium Install Freezes

[FZWG]

Appreciate some assistance.

Trying to install Windows Millennium on a friend's PC.
When the process reaches: 'Windows Setup is preparing to copy new system files to your computer', it freezes.

Any suggestions?

[Markoman01027]

Hello FZWG,

Please post system specs of the PC you are working with.

[FZWG]

Pentium III 600MHz
Asus P3B-F Mainboard
20GB Western Digital HDD
192MB RAM

Maybe installing Me to the hard drive and running setup from there might do the trick. You think??

[GaryRouth]

I like your idea of copying to the hard drive & trying it from there, just to rule out any issues with the customer's optical drive during the install itself. Of course, if the drive is going south, the files might not copy well either.

I'd assume he's got lots of free space on a 20gb drive for the WinMe install, so I suppose other things to check might be that the AntiVirus is turned off, and perhaps run a diagnostic on the memory. [hard drive too, if you think it might be suspect]

[I bet you've probably already got it running by now, but I think my words-per-minute for typing is slowly improving with all this practice . . . ]
. . . Gary

[FZWG]

Thanks for the reply, Gary.

Tried installing the win9x folder to the hard drive, but that also did not work.

As it turns out, replaced the video card (!), and Millennium installed just fine.

Those good old video cards.....

[GaryRouth]

How funny! Was it an old Cirrus-Logic based video? They put up a terrible stink in anything newer than Win95 [reasonable enough, I suppose, since they'd stopped making cards for a while by then]

How did you figure on suspecting the video card???? That's pretty impressive detective work!
. . . Gary

[FZWG]

"Was it an old Cirrus-Logic based video?"

Yes!!!! You got a crystal ball?? ;-)

"How did you figure on suspecting the video card????"

When all else fails, that is the first thing I suspect. Just habit.