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- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: Problems installing NT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.142734.2199@brandonu.ca>
- From: dueck@brandonu.ca
- Date: 1 Sep 92 14:27:34 CST
- References: <478@highett.mel.dbce.csiro.au>
- Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
- Lines: 54
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- In article <478@highett.mel.dbce.csiro.au>, steveo@mel.dbce.csiro.au (Stephen Oakes) writes:
- > Hi there,
- > Having attended the Windows Developer's conference in Sydney, I
- > rushed back eagerly to install NT and try to write a few programmes.
- >
- > But the installation procedure didn't work. In fact, we have two
- > (almost) identical machines here at work and we get the same problem
- > on both of them.
- >
- > The machines are 50MHz 486's with Orchid Fahrenheit Video card,
- > NEC CD-ROM, IDE HArd disk formatted into two partitions.
- >
- > The installation procedure just gets to the white on blue screen,
- > then comes up with the following:
- >
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Windows NT Setup
- >
- > TRAP 0000000E ============= PAGE FAULT ================
- >
- > ** At linear address E84539C2
- >
- > tr=0028 cr0=80000011 cr2=E84539C2 cr3=00030000
- > gdt limit=03FF base=00036000 idt limit=07FF base=00036400
- >
- > cs:eip=0008:801033D7 ss:esp=0010:00077C64 errcode=0000
- > flags=00010046 NoCy Zr IntDis Down TrapDis
- > eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=00090084 edx=00077900 ds=0010 es=0000
- > edi=80117248 esi=00000000 epb=00077CBD cr0=80000011 fs=0030 gs=0000
- >
- >
- >
- > Reading inf file \txtsetup.inf
- > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- >
- > I tried the manual installation, and that seemed to work OK.
- >
- >
- I had the same problem on a 486/33 with AMI bios. I found a solution
- in a posting from this news groups some time back.
-
- For my machine, disabling ROM BIOS shadowing (F000-FFFF) worked.
-
- If it doesn't work for you, try also disabling external caching and
- video bios shadowing.
-
- BTW[1], we had a 386/40 that wouldn't run setup for Windows 3.1. Disabling
- all shadowing and caching allowed setup to run to completion.
-
- BTW[2], a friend of mine has a problem with an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller.
- It won't work unless he disables hidden DMA refresh.
-
- Gery Dueck
- dueck@brandonu.ca
-