Windows installation

[fsixteen]

Everytime I try to install windows 95 or 98 about 1 minute into the installation the computer crashes and gives this message:

standard mode: bad fault in ms-dos extender
fault:000D Stack Dump: 0000 0000 0020
raw fault frame: EC=0000 IP=94D8 CS=037F FL=3246 SP=000A SS=02DF
the hard drive was low level formatted and is empty and then I ran fdisk and created a primary partiion and formatted that. Could anyone tell me what this message means. Thanks

 

[mainegeek]

More hardware specs about your system would help.

 

[fsixteen]

I'm not by the computer now but all I can remember is its an Athlon 900mhz processor with 128mb ram.

 

[franklin97355]

Do both installs from different media give you the same error? If so you probably have a bad hard drive.

 

[Fishguy]

Any time that I have ever recieved an error message similar to this, it has been due to bad RAM. Perhaps you should try swapping out what you have for a fresh stick.

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Fishguy

 

[calvin2]

This says it all:

http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...pport/kb/articles/q87/2/39.asp&NoWebContent=1