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People, I'm going to cry!
I am desperate to get my new computer up and running. Long has been the torment of having to fulfil all computer necessities on a machine worthy of recognition in the Natural History Museum (PII 350 Mhz 128MB Ram, 6.5GB HDD)
Enough was enough, I went shopping and came back with the goods. Intel Celeron 2.4Ghz, 512DDR Ram, 80GB HDD, all on ASUS P4S800. I should be dancing around my room with smile from ear-to-ear, not slumped in this chair prodding the nice shiny machine whilst frumping.
The problem, Windows installation/boot-up halts just after commencing displaying the following:
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"File \1386\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded.
The error code is 4.Setup cannot continue. Please press any key to exit"
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I have read the previous posts on these errors, but need updated advice?
I've switched the RAM, no luck, I tried changing the speed of the processor in BIOS, but it wouldn't even get far enough to crash on any other of the available settings. I've tried installing Windows 2000 Pro, and Windows XP, both from Floppy and From CD Boot up. but to no avail. Everything's working, everything's being picked up by the motherboard.
I can't afford to be going out and buying new bits, I'm operating on a student's budget! But on the sheer basis that everything is actually being recognised by the motherboard, shouldn't it be all present and correct?
If some-one doesn't help me, I may just lose my mind... I've spent too many years double-clicking Internet Explorer and waiting for it to load whilst making a coffee!
-Gavster-
Try this:
Start your computer with a w98 boot disk. Choose to boot with CDROM support.
Put the Win 2000cdrom in the drive.
Navigate to \i386 directory.
run winnt.exe command. Install will start.
Post back, let us know how you do.
Good Luck
raincheck
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Thx for that Raincheck.
Problem is I don't own Windows 98 Start Up Disks as such. When I first got m ancient beast in 1998 it was a package deal and came with a two-disk Packard Bell Package Disk...
I'm going to try and install that and see what happens - if that'll at least get me into the computer I can think about installing windows 2000/XP after that.
-Gavster-
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You can go to www.bootdisk.com and download a program that makes a 98 boot disk.
Just keep in mind, what you are downloading is a program that creates the floppy disk.
Download the program to your HD, and have a floppy disk in the A: drive. Then execute the program and it will create the 98 startup disk.
Good Luck
raincheck
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I've just spent the last 20mins searching for my old disks, you think I coud find them? No chance. Going to go to that website and make a bootdisk, see how that works out and I'll be back.
-Gavster-
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I have two computers, but neglected to buy an extra floppy disk drive when purchasingmy new computer. Consequently I have one floppy drive which is residing in the new computer! I just put a floppy disk into the old computer's floppy-drive port in the casing and it slid right though, luckily got it out justby taking off the front cover.
The ancient PC is one of those ridiculously annoying ones where every panel is screwed together with a minimum of 5 screws, with at leas ttwo different screwdrivers needed for each. That's Packard Bell for you!
I'm going to have to grab the laptop, download this file onto the ancient PC (One I'm using now) Record it onto a CD-RW and plonk it on the laptop, make the boot-up disk on there, and then use it in the new one. Long winded, but a lot better than those screws at 4am in the morning!
-Gavster-
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Ok, I've been doing bits and pieces, and here's how the situation stands.
I made a Windows 98 Boot-Disk, but I started getting a new error message saying:
"Floppy Disk(s) Fail (40)"
I thought seeing as I'd plugged the new shiny machine in I might as well just go to the error screen one more time...
And then it didn't, it progressed further into the install for about a further minute before I got a message saying:
"The file pcmia.sys is corrupted. Please press any key to restart"
So I did, and on the second time of trying to install Windows it went even further stopping later and saying:
"The file aic116x.sys is corrupted. Please press any key to restart"
So I went again and this time it went all the way through to formatting the hard-drive. First time with that it fully formatted before saying it couldn't format the hard-drive. The again the second time it did the same, except it said that there was an 8MB partition of un-used memory that had been formatted. The Third time it wouldn't even begin formatting.
I restarted and when trying to install I got the original error message:
"File \i386\ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. The error code is 4."
Enough was enough, I went off to celebrate New Year's.
I'm contemplating taking my old 9.5BG HDD out of my ancient computer and putting it in alongside the new 80GB HDD. Then at least I would have an OS on the new computer. Maybe then I could format the new HDD through Windows so that it is ready to install Windows on? Even if I only format enough of it for the install. I can't even seem to get DOS access on the new computer, which I assume is because you must have an OS installed first before you can do so.
This is all just turning into a time-wasting nightmare... what should I do?
-Gavster-
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It sounds to me like you have some bad memory sticks. Do you have more than one memory module? If so pull one out and try to reinstall the OS, if it doesn't install pull that memory module out and put the other in. Then try again.
Memory is cheap, buy another stick if you need to.
Also you might try to set the BIOS to default settings to be on the safe side.Greg
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I'm considering it may be that Greg, although I must say it doesn't make sense because the BIOS is detecting the correct amount of memory no matter what slot I put it in. I moved my old HDD into my new computer, thinking that with Win98 already on it it should start up. However it didn't, it went to the blue registry restore screen, and after restoring a good back-up, it restarted and did the same thing over and over and over in a massive loop.
NIGHTMARE!
I've just made some XP Bootdisks, so I'm gonna give those a twirl and see how things go.
If it is that bleedin memory though I'm gonna screw, because the place I got it is only there on Saturdays, and I'm working this Saturday! Grrrrrr....
-Gavster-
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Well, 6 boot disks made, all seemed to be going well up until the 4th disk where there was another new error message. This time it was something similar to:
"The file usbacia.sys is corrupted."
And I ran it twice to see if it was another fluke, tbut the error only re-occurred.
I have two 64MB Ram stick in my old computer, I'm going to shift them into my new computer in place of the 512MB in there and see if that allows me to install and get up and running! If not then I'm considering moving the new HDD into the old set-up which I know to be good and seeing if I am able to install Windows using that one.
All that after I go and sort out my ebay account!
Any other suggestions before the next anticipated knock-down would be much welcomed!
-Gavster-
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Ok, nothing's worked. Old HDD in new set-up, new HDD in old setup... nothing.
Bizarrely when I put the old HDD in the new Set-up it kept going to the registry back-up screen... backing up an old "good-back-up" and then restarting and doing it again, over and over, endlessly. So that was no good.
XP boot up disks provided the message:
"The file usbohci.sys" is corrupted"
So I've got a nice new shiny machne that is un-useable...
And ideas?
-Gavster-
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Again, Just putting this message back to the top, really would like some help with this!
-Gavster-
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I'm afraid I can't be of any more help. You've tried everything, I just don't know what to say...I'm out of suggestions, I hope someone else can help.
raincheck
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Cheers Raincheck, it's been 8 days of shiny computer residing in my room... shiny but it does not work... I really don't know what to do.
-Gavster-
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I'm not quite having the same trouble as you, my computer only gets the messaage every once in a while. First, some people have had luck with reinstalling Windows.
Second, check out this link:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;287524Third, try putting in your old hard drive and booting to safe mode, then reboot.
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