Am Installing Windows 98 SE on a little 366 for my 3.5 year old
to play her preschool games and go to pollypocket.com, she always wants on my computer...ANYWAY, it checks the computer and then press enter to ocntinue setup, it goes back to the dos screen and it says "invalid DPMI return from 03FF:5F7A REMOVE ANY FLOPPY DISKS FROM DRIVES AND PRESS ANY KEY TO RESTART. In 10 years of working on computers, I have never seen that when installing an OS! Anyone know what it means?
2006-11-13 17:51:48 · 4 answers · asked by Mt ~^^~~^^~ 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
first of all rottie, she's 3 and a half, she doesn't need a fricken 3ghz processor with 4 ghz of ram. She is playing sesame street games and stuff, so a little 366 (if you even know what that is) is just fine for her, she doesn't care, I came here to ask a tech question and get help and if your gonna be snide, don't answer me, I don't want to waste my time reading your negativaty! For your info, I have 3 kids and they all have nice systems I bult, they are happy with them!
2006-11-13 18:00:40 · update #1
Ironic Alex, I used RAM I just had left over from who knows. The first RAM configuration didn't work (my assumption since there was no video) so what you said makes sence, I will try it, RAM did cross my mind briefly! Thank you!
2006-11-13 18:04:31 · update #2
I replaced the ram chip with a few others (4 or 5) trial and error thing. after about 10 minutes I got it to start to install, however, I decided to put XP on it intead and I networked it the others and I'm on it now and it works great!
2006-11-14 19:16:35 · update #3
Reseat the RAM making sure its contacts are clean(use 91% pure or higher alcohol), and the RAM is fully seated. If no luck, then try installing Windows with just one RAM module installed at a time in different slots. If the installation fails with a specific RAM module installed in all of the slots, then that module is bad.If the installation fails with all RAM modules inserted in a specific slot, then that slot is bad. If the system uses just 1 RAM module, and the installation fails with that module inserted in all of the slots, then swap it out.
2006-11-13 17:58:45 · answer #1 · answered by AlexD 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi.Take a look at this website and hopefully you ll get a solution.It explains the error message and the possible solution.This is the best i can do for you but i hope it helps.Good luck.
http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=remove+any+floppy+disc+from+drives+and+press+any+key+to+restart
2006-11-14 02:06:54 · answer #2 · answered by doc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey!errors is a mistake but if you try manytimes with patience,so will get what it means,OS means an on sessions.
2006-11-14 02:14:18 · answer #3 · answered by jesse.aug28 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its time to get a beter pc for the kid
2006-11-14 01:53:30 · answer #4 · answered by rottie_mama1969 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋