ok... resident PC guru please.. before i smash this PC..

[RichP]

Loading the XP cd to the hd won't work.
fdisk it, reinstall win98, put the funky controller card drivers in. From there it should work. My guess is that you have a funny boot sector on that disk now that might have some of the XP boot stuff still left on it, seen similar when trying to do a win98 or win2k reinstall and the 98 and win2k installer both see an os already on there.
One more time, what brand and model is that controller card ?? If it's a generic white box mystery board that you got at a computer show shoot me the FCC number and I can trace it that way.
Something in the back of my mind says this could also be a sysprep issue too. I really would fdisk it and start from scratch, just reformatting it does not remove everything.

 

[sidriptide]

ok rich.......whats Fdisk?? i'll try anything at this point..... i had a hard time getting the machine to recognize the drivers on the disk for the controller as well..... the controller card is as best i can tell is an ULTRA ATA. 100 . it came with the new WESTERN DIGITAL HD...model# wd1600jbrtl rigth now i'm trying to find a driver for my cable modem that works with 98....
mike

 

[Kejtar]

ok... visit this place: http://tinyurl.com/ut7e and read up a bit. There are steps that you will have to follow...

 

[sidriptide]

i give up on it tonite..... tommorow it's going back to original hardware configuration..... then will upgrade one step at a time...... then if that does not do what i want it's a new PC on sunday.....
i need another beer for this.....
mike