Hello all. I am trying to figure out this darn problem. I am working on a friends computer and he had to end up getting a new motherboard..but its the exact same one that came with his..its a dell proprietary board. Before the new mobo his computer wouldnt do anything. Now it will boot and we want to reinstall WinME because he had some messed up stuff on it. We reformatted HD..but when I go to e:\setup to run the windowsME install from CD I get error messages and it doesnt do anything and we have tried other copies of the cd. They are exact copies I have made from a long time ago in case master copy got scratched and same thing. Was talking about config.sys and autoexec.bat and one forum I looked at said to change them to .dos extensions but that didnt do any good. Also said to edit the config.sys file..well how can I edit it if I cant even get into windows. Whats the most easiest solution to this and is the config.sys and autoexec.bat a dos prog..or on the HD..would replacing HD fix this problem. I am pretty computer literate and fix many computers but this one has be stupified. IowaGuy31

http://www.windowsreinstall.com/install/winme/installme/index.htm

Are you using a boot disk like the Win98 boot disk? If so, this often temporarily moves the CD drive on one letter - D becomes E, E becomes F. If you change to the drive letter you think is the CD & type DIR and press enter does it read the contents of the CD?

Are you actually booting to the CD, or are you using a Windows 98 boot floppy and then selecting the "Install OS"? Life is more painless for those who are brainless.

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Well yes I am using WinME boot disk and WinME cd...yeah I can get to e: drive and type dir and see the files..now I clicked setup and it started to go through the motions of installing WinME but it got about 10% installed and came up with Suwin caused a general protection fault and another fault in comm.drv here is the contents of my config.sys file [menu] menuitem=HELP, Help menuitem=CD, Start computer with CD-ROM support. menuitem=NOCD, Start computer without CD-ROM support. menuitem=QUICK, Minimal Boot menudefault=HELP,30 menucolor=7,0 [HELP] device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=btdosm.sys device=flashpt.sys device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=aspi2dos.sys device=aspi8dos.sys device=aspi4dos.sys device=aspi8u2.sys device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001 devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048 [CD] device=oakcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=btdosm.sys device=flashpt.sys device=btcdrom.sys /D:mscd001 device=aspi2dos.sys device=aspi8dos.sys device=aspi4dos.sys device=aspi8u2.sys device=aspicd.sys /D:mscd001 devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048 [NOCD] devicehigh=ramdrive.sys /E 2048 [QUICK] [COMMON] files=10 buffers=10 dos=high,umb stacks=9,256 lastdrive=z

That's pretty much a standard config.sys, from a standard bootdisk Specific SUWIN errors are searchable, but it may boil down to a hardware or memory problem We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true