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this is a quick question that off subject BUT. How do u get an avatar. When im in the edit avatar section there is only NO AVATAR of what ever. Just a quike

Hey m8,
You didnt specify what your board model number is. An when you posted your specs, did you mean a DVD-ROM, and CD-ROM, maybe you should tryo booting from your DVD drive, if that dosent work, It myte be a BIOS issue, if that cant be fixed, you might have to flash your BIOS, or return the board,

Hope that helps

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How is your Hard drive partitioned/formatted? I had the same trouble. I either used the floppy disks or I booted from Win98 CD-ROM, loaded Win98, then with a windows O/S, you can access the CD-ROM with WinXP, run setup and eventually get to either a dual boot system get it to upgrade Win98 to WinXP.

hmm. heres the thing. I dont have a windows 98 setup disk. I could get it for free from limewire. but is there a faster free way to download it?

its a k7m2 delta board by MSI. I dont know about the BIOS but it seems to work fine. I was told it must be my hdd do i put in my other 60gig western digital that had 2000 pro on it. but 2000 was all mesed up it would freeze after loading right b4 the boot screen. I tryed a diff board and that 1 dosnt work either. So... i have no idea whats wrong now.

im installing the newest version of BIOS just incase
http://www.msicomputer.com/support/BIOS_Award_Recovery.asp

To boot Win98, you have only to download Win98bootdisk from bootdisk.com.

Be careful of updating Bios. It is a good thing to do so fundamentally, but it is unthinkable that recent bios can't support CD boot if it's new.

ookkk i got the boot disk. i get the command promt. but then what. cause the only directories that i ca getinto are B: and A:. a is floppy. i dont no what to do.

Then, what is B:? Enter "dir b:" to confirm it.

Did you select CD-Rom support? Which and which did the bios recognized?

If the Win98bootdisk doesn't work for some reason. You can also try other disk, 6XP bootdisk or 4 W2K disks etc., also available from bootdisk.com or Microsoft. In any ways, you must make the OS recognize the devices appearing in bios correctly by all means.

Note: HDD is unrecognized from DOS, if it is not partitioned or regarded as unpartitioned. In this case, you should partition the disk first by fdisk or some utilities.

ok... im stupid. i just realized that i was using a broken hdd (Its not the hdd its just the win2k on it) for the last message. Hehe. Sry. But now that im using the blank one i can even get the promt up from the 98 bootdisk.

Hi I am having exactly the same problem and it is very frustrating. Please can you email me on Paul.jackson99@ntlworld.com and if I find out first I will do the same.

cheers Paul