But when the bar reaches full it just stays there. Nothing else loads, and when I tried entering setup nothing happened. I reset and tried again, it said "Entering setup" in the corner, but again wen the bar reached full nothing happened.

It was working fine the last time I tried it. I have windows 98 SE, using ps/2 mouse and keyboard and have a cd-rw drive, but these have always been in. Any help at all would be gratefully appreciated.

What you need to do is go to the www.support.dell.com site and type in your G1's service tag number.