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  2. From: ltuttle+@CMU.EDU (Luke David Tuttle)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
  4. Subject: Setup Hangs, Hardware at fault?
  5. Message-ID: <oeZ6dh_00WB9ETBlVF@andrew.cmu.edu>
  6. Date: 20 Aug 92 20:00:45 GMT
  7. Organization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
  8. Lines: 31
  9.  
  10. Setup runs until the point is says, "Welcome to Windows!",
  11. and a dialog box appears telling you how much of the remaining
  12. files their is to copy...I've tried everything with the config.sys
  13. and autoexec.bat files, stripping them down to nothing...
  14.  
  15. Could my hardware be at at fault, here is what I am running...
  16.  
  17.                       386 Compatible
  18.                Processor         80386SX
  19.                Video Adapter     VGA
  20.                BIOS              Award
  21.                BIOS Date         10/20/89
  22.                Coprocessor       None
  23.                Keyboard          Enhanced
  24.                Parallel Ports    1
  25.                Serial Ports      2
  26.  
  27. The VGA is 640x480 with 16 bit color, and is the same age as the computer.
  28.  
  29.                   Video Display Adapter
  30.         Type:          VGA
  31.         Monitor:       Color Display
  32.         Video Memory:  A000 - AFFF   Graphics
  33.                        B800 - BFFF   Text
  34.         Video ROM:     C000 - C7FF
  35.  
  36.  
  37. Thanks for any help,
  38.  
  39. Luke Tuttle
  40. ltuttle@cmu.edu
  41.