Compact LAptop

[JohnBe]

Hi,

I have an old compaq presario 1200 laptop.
I do not have the original win 98 that was sold with the computer anymore.

What do I do in order to install another Win98 SE that I have?

Thanks.

[glc]

Boot with the CD and install it - same way. You may have to get drivers from the Compaq website.

[JohnBe]

When I boot it up with the non-compaq Win 98 CD, it starts up, does a scan disk then reboots in order to install, but that this point it doesn't work because its not the compact win98 disk.

i'm trying to figure out what I need to do so that it takes my non-compaq CD because installing it normally isn't working.

Thanks


EDIT: I wrote to compaq to see what they think I should do.

[glc]

Please elaborate on "it doesn't work".

[JohnBe]

sorry.

It says:

Standart Mode: Fault outside of MS-DOS Extender. EC=0000 CS=0397 IP=3E03 AX=036F BX=0120 Cx=0120 DX=01E0 SI=01C0 DI=0000 BP=0FC2 DS=0277 ES=036F SS=027F SP=0FA2

(what ever those mean)

Please remove any floppy disks from your drives and press any key to restart your system.

A friend of mine had a similar probelm a few months back but with a fujitsu laptop but he found his original CD and the problem went away.

I got a reply from Compaq, they only said to format the drive and use the appropriete key with the new win 98 CD.

Thanks

[flanzig1]

Need to go into the BIOS and set the CD drive as first boot device. Then reboot with the 98 cd in the drive.

[glc]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/87239

Looks to me like you may have bad ram or a bad hard drive in that thing.