HP Omnibook 900 a formerly win98

[IHUDDLES]

HP Omnibook 900

a formerly win98 PC

trying to install win2k on it --

gets to the stage
"installing Devices...screen may flicker momentarily..."

well - half-way thru the bar on that -- the screen goes BLANK and just never comes back

hard drive keeps working away -

I can even see the CD-ROM (filled with 2000 setup cd) lighting up occasionally

but I NEVER GET CONTROL of PC again

you can either restart from Hard Drive - cycle thru "continuing Windows Setup" only to fail at same exact place
or you can power down totally and boot from CD - start setup ALL OVER or else "Repair"

but it matters not --


gets to the stage
"installing Devices...screen may flicker momentarily..."

and then it goes out

and that's it

I have gone into BIOS setup and disabled every "sleep mode" type option I can see...

no luck

 

[x2]

Have you checked for bios updates?
Maybe???

 

[IHUDDLES]

I made BIOS changes in the SETUP pressing F2 and changing this - changing that -- 17 times til I finally landed on something that allowed Win2k setup to proceed past the point where it was blanking out

jest trial and error

"save changes and reboot"

til it worked

 

[MMmutman]

You have to go to the hp.com site to download the ACPI BIOS/HPCI Driver (remember to read instructions first) for your notebook, and start from there, all drivers needed for your notebook are there . Good luck