New Computer

[lameduck]

Hi,
I've just bought a new computer with no operating system on it. All the hardware has been put in by the shop and I thought it would be easy to install the system how wrong I was.When I turn the machine on it goes through all the checks and end's up at PCI device listing then the message
"Non-system disk or disk error" appears. I have all the disks plus a floppy HOT ROD 100 PRO-driver disk. Could anyone help me to get up and running *Please*
Eternally Grateful
lameduck
230V Case
Abit KT7 ATA 100 RAID ATX
AMD K7T'BIRD 1000 MHZ-SKTA
256MB SDRAM 133MHZ
30 GB 7200 RPM ATA 100
Plextor Cd Rom (SCSI)
Creative 32MB Ge Force 2 GTS Video Card
Please don't slag me off I'm willing to learn

 

[Karl Blessing]

Well if you have a Win98 CD, go into the BIOS and change your first boot device to ATPI (or something like that) CDrom, because if your Win98 CDrom is bootable(which it may likely be) you may be able to install it from your CDrom, but better yet to run fdisk, create a partition, format the hdd, copy the contents of the win98 files over to the C drive under something like C:\win98setup

because they're weird instances, where you install from a cdrom, then when it boots the second time, and ask for some files off your CDrom, it didnt even load the CDrom drivers the second time, so thats why it's usally best to run setup off your hdd, also good because you wont have to put in your Cdrom later.

need more information about the steps above? just ask
Karl
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[lameduck]

Cheers Karl,
I'll give it a go and I'll let you know
how I get on.

Geo.