I have an FIC VA-503+ 1.2A bios 1.15JE35. This weekend I decided to upgrade the system to W98. The system has worked well for 1.5 yrs on W95. So I reset the hard drive (5gb) with Western Digital's set disk and then booted to a W98 boot disk to get CD support. All's well so far. Then I ran setup on the W98 CD. I got thru all steps and the files started copying. At 70% complete, W98 install gives a "CAB error" and rattles off something about cleaning the CD. I repeated the process multiple times with the same results (yes, I did clean the CD - no scratches anyway).
When I visited the FIC website, there is a note in the bios page that says there may be problems with some UDMA something-or-other. Do I need a bios update, or am I barking up the wrong tree? Even if I wanted to update the bios, the fic web page that details the procedure is not responding. Anyone have a copy of this procedure? I did successfully download many versions of VA-503+ bios from FIC's FTP site.
Thanks for the help,
tblount
W98 hangs during install on VA503+ - bios UDMA bug?
Try this first:
Copy the CD to your HDD and install from there. If the copy hangs at a certain point, then either your CD is damaged (it doesn't necessarily have to be visible damage) or your CD drive mechanism gets misaligned at a certain point.
To copy, all you need are the files in the root directory of your CD and the full /Win98/ directory.
Note: if you remember which CAB file was the culprit, try reading it on another working PC, just to verify whether it's the drive mechanism to blame.
Copy the CD to your HDD and install from there. If the copy hangs at a certain point, then either your CD is damaged (it doesn't necessarily have to be visible damage) or your CD drive mechanism gets misaligned at a certain point.
To copy, all you need are the files in the root directory of your CD and the full /Win98/ directory.
Note: if you remember which CAB file was the culprit, try reading it on another working PC, just to verify whether it's the drive mechanism to blame.
And test the memory http://www.goldmemory.cz - problems like this are often caused by bad memory.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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I went through the same problems. Pl. refer to http://www.wimsbios.net/phpBB2/viewtopi ... 6#8036.com
I had to disable the processor internal cache,virus protection and UDMA support through BIOS settings in order to install Win 98SE.
The installation takes a long time(about an hour and a half).
Good luck.
Shankar
I had to disable the processor internal cache,virus protection and UDMA support through BIOS settings in order to install Win 98SE.
The installation takes a long time(about an hour and a half).
Good luck.
Shankar