I told my friend to try and slave the CDROM off the HD on the primary IDE and try it and if that dose not work to do the same for the secondary IDE perhaps there is an issue with the IDE. We played around with the BIOS setting however this computer has weird (security) settings for the drives that make me think it could possibly a BIOS setting causing the problem The OS was copied to the HD and the install tried from there (same issue) See if there were any issues with the memory. The install was tried with just one at a time to All cards were removed from the computer and we even tried another video card. The HD that was in the computer was replace (bad sectors on the old one) * What has been done to the computer thus far is. When you try to install Windows 98 you boot the computer up, go to the CDROM drive and type (setup) nothing happens. When you try to install Windows 2000 on the computer it will copy the files and once done it will just hag on the (Starting Windows) part. Okay here is the problem and the reason why I put this in hardware is that based on what I see I think this has to be either a hardware (or BIOS) issue even though the system post test fine with no beeps or errors from the hardware or the memory. It is a PIII 600 with 128 Meg of RAM, onboard audio, an old AGP video card as well as an old 10/100 PCI Ethernet card. My friend purchased an old IBM 300GL for Internet use.
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