Hi I've just upgraded my PC with a

[BUNGER]

Hi
I've just upgraded my PC with an Asus A7N8X m/board, Athlon XP 2200 & 2 x 256mb PC2100 dimms. Problem is - I can't install the nForce 2 drivers that came with the m/b. When I try to install the install wizard tells me to insert the Win98 CD into the drive specified below, but it doesn't specify any drive. If I put the Win98 cd into my cd drive and click OK I get the msg "you have chosen not to install the nForce 2 drivers. The application will now terminate without installing the drivers", and it terminates! Even trying to install using the Run and Browse option in Win 98 gives the same result. The PC seems to work OK but without these drivers it is even slower than my old Athlon 1200. I'm beginning to think that this m/board doesn't like Win 98SE even though Asus claim that the board supports it. Or maybe it's just me???

 

[mattjurado]

Sometimes when loading drivers, Windows will prompt for the Windows cd, but in reality its looking for the driver install cd. What is the file name it is searching for? Write it down, then search your driver cd-rom for it. If its there, then you are going to point it to that disk.

Another good practice, copy both cds to the hard disk (actually not the whole windows cd, just the win98 directory on it). You can also tell the registry where the windows installation files are, so that it doesn't ask you for a cd every system change. Backup the registry first before you attempt this.

So, copy your driver cd to
c:\org\mainboard

and copy your os cd to
c:\org\win98

Run REGEDIT, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup

Look for the key that says source path. It will say something like D:\ (or whatever your cdrom drive is), double click it, type c:\org\win98. Exit the registry.

Matt