![]() Basically, I discovered by chance that the rudimentary DOS that the Win98 install floppy had installed on the hard drive was capable of reading from a USB flash drive. “You managed to get the Windows 98 installer to the point where it was capable of making spurious objections about memory?” Yes. It actually complained that I didn’t have enough memory because of the overflow. I might as well have just taken it out completely, though, because it turns out that I had more memory in that box than Windows 98 knows how to cope with. ![]() Shifting the memory into a different slot fixed the immediate problem. This time, however, I noticed that one of the little lock-in levers on the memory slots was out of position, and in fact seemed to be broken enough that it couldn’t be put into position. And everything had seemed pretty firmly seated before. (There are other reasons, which I hope to post about soon.) In my experience, there are only ever two causes for this sort of behavior: improperly seated components, and components damaged by static electricity. ![]() ![]() This development was part of the reason I stopped working on it for two months. It just went silent and lightly sprinkled the logo screen with glitches before the POST, without so much as a beep code. The day’s efforts had several dramatic turns, starting with a cliffhanger I had forgotten about: the machine I was trying to install Windows 98 on had stopped booting.
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