My windows9x/ME is not happening!!!!!!

[Stranded]

I put together a system with a PIII 866, Asus
CUV4x-E motherboard, Maxtor 30GB HD, 128MB PC133 ram.
When I powered it up everything seemed to
be working fine: boot up, POST, memory count,
but when I tried installing WinME or any
other version of the windows, the whole system
would freeze up displaying the following
message: "Application Error. Caused a general
protection fault in module SYSTEM.DRV at
0001:0280" ,just before I get the screen
with all the installation options. I checked
all the frequency multipliers and all the
jumpers, partitioned and formated the HD
over and over again, but it didn't help.

Please HELP!!!!!

 

[ShaithisDanoveur]

Assuming this is all new hardware, I'd suspect the RAM of having problems, lose cables, wrong cables/incorrectly installed cables, bios problem, hard drive problem, corrupt install media, pretty much in that order.

 

[Jakman]

try slowing your computer some . disable the L2 cache during the install.

 

[cdogg]

if you're trying to install from CD, try copying the contents onto the hard drive first before running the OS setup...