I was trying to reformat and install win98se on an old toshiba laptop 660cdt with an external floopy. It was going to be just a midi machine. During install I got some error messages that it could not install certain files when I clicked ok the machine went to a blue screen with an hour glass and stayed there. It will not boot up with my boot disk. it will not respond to any keys on start up to get to the bios. When it comes on it just goes to the blue screen and, well I'm baffled!!!!!!!!!

That's odd. You're saying from "dead cold turned off" it bypasses the floppy and goes to a blue screen. That would mean part of an operating system is installed and your rig is trying to boot...but can't. I have to assume you booted from the floppy, got cd support and started a normal install of 98se. Was another operating system already on the laptop? Like Win95 or Win3.1? I'm gonna look up some things about your laptop and I'll get back to ya. It's a little hard to concentrate when I'm listening to your music...that's some good stuff. If I'm wrong about any of my assumptions, correct me. Other folks will jump in here too. Skip

In addition to the manuals, these sheets were available. The manual says to press F10 to start from the floppy drive. This little bit of advice from another page: The computer starts, but when you press a key on the keyboard or touch the AccuPoint, nothing happens. You are probably in Resume Mode and have a software or resource conflict. When this happens, turning the power on returns you to the problem instead of restarting the system. To clear the condition, press Ctrl + Alt + Del or press the reset button. Clearing the condition may get you running by disabling Resume Mode, but it won't solve a resource conflict. Read the documentation that came with the conflicting device and Resolving a Hardware Conflict. Specification sheet http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_outFrm.jsp?moid=1073769643&ct=DS&BV_SessionID=@@@@1522996255.1071637539@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccchadckehkikegcgfkceghdgngdgll.0 How to start from cd etc http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su/su_sc_dtlView.jsp?soid=403623&moid=1073769643&BV_SessionID=@@@@1522996255.1071637539@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccchadckehkikegcgfkceghdgngdgll.0&ct=SB It seems from what I've read so far that all the setup programs are either DOS or Windows based. Hopefully some one here knows more about TSETUP than I'm about to learn from the user manual. Skip