im having trouble installing windows 95 or 98 on an old aptiva im trying reformat for someone. there are various problems from not able to decoce certain cab files during installation of win 95/98 to a lot of dll errors after it is done installing windows. i tried updating the bios, replacing the hard drive already, but it still has those errors. could it be bad ram? or is this computer just dead now? i can post more details if anyone can even suggest ideas. yes, i know how to reformat a computer because i have done it plenty of times.. it has to be something in the hardware... something that i still dont really know much about.

Did you disable the bios virus protection if it has it before trying to install windows?What model of Aptiva?

i dont think it has anything to do with the virus protection, but the model aptiva im working on is a 2159-s64. but ill try to disable the virus protection and see what happens

If you been here ok but if not you may find something usefull.


http://www.pc.ibm.com/support?lang=en_US&brand=IBM+Aptiva%7CAptiva%7C2159%7CS64&doctype=Downloadable+files&subtype=Cat&page=brand&menu=subtype&subtype=All

okay i get illegal operation errors in explorer... about gdi.exe.. sometimes about kernell sumthing.dll.. and some others but this always happens right when windows 95 boots up... i have no idea whats going wrong because i just put a new hard drive in there... so i know the hard drive isnt faulty and i installed/ reinstalled/uninstalled windows 95 too many times that i almost memorized the cd-key... hah... i need some help. could it be bad ram? oh yeah... i did update the bios... which is still 5 years old.. or is the cpu damaged? any more sugestions? its not that i really need that computer is just that i am helping my aunt fix it and i cant seem to find out whats wrong with it

download the latest version of Internet Explorer, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie

thanks for the suggestions but no.. not internet explorer(iexplore.exe) but.. Explorer.exe like right after windows barely loads up i get errors in that and run32.dll

okay.. i was able to copy/paste some of the errors that occur repeatedly for no reason on that stupid computer:

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:00000009.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0137 EIP=00000009 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=0000cd49 SS=013f ESP=0066fba4 EBP=0066fc1c
ECX=1c8effc0 DS=013f ESI=00000500 FS=1c97
EDX=00011c6f ES=013f EDI=000000c8 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 aa 08 65 04 70 00 65 04 70 00 54 ff 00 f0 1b
Stack dump:
0000013f 00402a75 00540da8 00000002 00000150 0066fc24 00008c92 0066fc6e 7a348bcc 1c37ffff 3c418be0 ffff1757 00001c37 1c370000 115031c4 00008c26

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:00000009.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0137 EIP=00000009 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=0000cd49 SS=013f ESP=0066fba4 EBP=0066fc1c
ECX=28b0ffc0 DS=013f ESI=00000500 FS=1bc7
EDX=00011a67 ES=013f EDI=0000027c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 aa 08 65 04 70 00 65 04 70 00 54 ff 00 f0 1b
Stack dump:
0000013f 00402a75 00540da8 00000002 000002a0 0066fc24 00008c92 0066fc6e 23d41737 1737374c 18072532 00820182 18072574 0002374c 00000000 8bf419d7

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:00000009.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0137 EIP=00000009 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=0000cd56 SS=013f ESP=0066fba4 EBP=0066fc1c
ECX=108efec0 DS=013f ESI=00000500 FS=1c97
EDX=00011c6f ES=013f EDI=000000c8 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 aa 08 65 04 70 00 65 04 70 00 54 ff 00 f0 1b
Stack dump:
0000013f 00402a75 00540da8 00000002 00000150 0066fc24 00008c92 0066fc6e 000000a0 00000016 00000001 8238ab88 000005f6 0066fc1c bfedd1e0 00540de0

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:00000009.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0137 EIP=00000009 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=0000cd56 SS=013f ESP=0066fba4 EBP=0066fc1c
ECX=180cfec0 DS=013f ESI=00000500 FS=1b37
EDX=00011a4f ES=013f EDI=00000234 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 aa 08 65 04 70 00 65 04 70 00 54 ff 00 f0 1b
Stack dump:
0000013f 00402a75 00540da8 00000002 00000254 0066fc24 00008c92 0066fc6e 0066fc46 00000016 00000001 8238ba90 000005fa 0066fc1c bfedd1e0 00540de0

EXPLORER caused an invalid page fault in
module <unknown> at 0000:00000009.
Registers:
EAX=00000000 CS=0137 EIP=00000009 EFLGS=00010206
EBX=0000cd56 SS=013f ESP=0066fba4 EBP=0066fc1c
ECX=180cfec0 DS=013f ESI=00000500 FS=1c1f
EDX=00011c67 ES=013f EDI=0000033c GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
00 aa 08 65 04 70 00 65 04 70 00 54 ff 00 f0 1b
Stack dump:
0000013f 00402a75 00540da8 00000002 00000364 0066fc24 00008c92 0066fc6e bffbfa00 bff79754 00000001 815476a4 c0fe0c18 0066fbf0 bff90e8e 8c0e1c97

okay... i have another problem with this computer... it takes forever for the system memory test to load. it takes a long time for it to check the memory and then after that it freezes so it gets stuck at that screen. and occasionally it will restart and do the same thing over again. i cannot hit F1 to go to the setup and i cant press escape to skip the test. is this computer just useless now?