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From: liz on 11/14/2002
I have a new laptop, am trying to install win 95 Hard drive has been formatted, i've set up partitions e.t.c and continued to fdisk and then onto setup. No problems on setup until first restart where it hung on the black screen with the blinking curser in top left hand corner. After switching it off and restarting it continued fine and carried on hardware detection, that went fine. Then it needed to restart and this is where it hangs, with the windows 95 logo, clouds in the background and the coloured bar underneath moving in the right direction. The win 95 disc itself is in good condition, is brand new. Have started it in safe mode and checked system menu, looked everything over, but cannot see a problem, although not everything can report problems as it is in safe mode. The only thing showing is a red cross through the modem card, which i removed before set up anyway to install after set up. I haven't attached a mouse or printer yet either as i have known that to make pcs hang in the past during set up.Any suggestions as to what the problem might be??
email: j.harvey6@ntlworld.com Thanks
LIZ
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From: Computerpilot on 11/18/2002
Do you happen to have a Compaq Presario laptop...say a 1200 or so series?If so, I have some good advice for you. I will await your response before I post. It does sound like a bad sound driver or a driver that was not successfully installed. In addition, you may also be running with the 'Standard PC' HAL instead of the ACPI HAL. This will not shut your computer off during shut down. It will be necessary to shut the computer off manually using the power button. You can tell which HAL you are using by right-clicking "My computer", select properties, click hardware tab, click Device Manager button, find computer on the list, click plus button. It will list if it is a ACPI or Standard HALL. If it is standard, you can attempt to change this to ACPI. Please keep in mind that if it is unsuccessful, you will have to reinstall Windows 2000. To change, you can double click the listing under computer, choose to update driver, select the option for manual choice and choose the ACPI single processor driver. If you are successful, the computer will work normally after you reboot. Hope this helps and I am looking forward to your response regarding the laptop manufacturer to fix the crakle noise. Computerpilot
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From: Liz on 11/15/2002
Thanks for the reply, sorry the laptop is new to me, but is actually second hand, originall the seller had win 98, but upgraded to ME, he wiped the lot because of selling it to me. Since my last post i have installed windows 2000 to just see, as you said the newer laptop may not like win 95. Anyway it installed perfectly and now starts perfectly apart from a crackly sound at the very beginning, also when it shuts down it crackles and then hangs at the very last minute leaving a blank page and a curser blinking in the top left hand corner.
Could i have a corrupt sound file causing this do you think??
Thanks
LIZ
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From: Computerpilot on 11/14/2002
If you are indicating you have a 'new' laptop, I assume that means you purchased it as new and not used. This would indicate to me that you probably had Windows XP on the computer prior to purchase you have decided to install Windows 95 (for some good reason???).Is there a chance that we have technology in the new laptop that Windows 95 cannot install drivers for on setup? For example, Windows 95's standard keyboard or touchpad driver may not be compatible with your laptop. Make sure you are using a OEM disk and you have the newest version. I have seen quite a few installs go bad due to copied disks. Another item of interest. I believe the reason that the computer did not restart itself during install is due to the incompatibility of the Advanced Power Management driver. I am not sure if the default Windows 95 driver is compatible with your new laptop BIOS. Most laptops now-a-days use a self-designed BIOS. Laptop manufacturers are not too interested in building a computer that is compatible with older operating systems. I guess I would look into this power management theory. I am not sure if there is much you can do to avoid this. I would be curious if installing Windows 98 first and then using it's power management drivers for Windows 95 would be successful. Sorry I could not offer an immediate solution. Hopefully my brain farts will point you to a solution. Computerpilot
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