[Ham-Computers] Sick 'Pooter'

[gene]

Hylton:
Thank you for the reply!
I have used the Maxtor disk to format the drive and also have used the windows boot disk; doing the usual fdisk, sys, etc.

I have removed all of the add-in ISA cards, used a AGP and a ISA video card, changed RAM sticks (Or, maybe I should say modules).

Another note: I have tried three different HDD's, mice, monitors and keyboards - all with the same results: I am unable to load ANY version of Windows ('98, '98SE, WINME, XP Home and XP Pro). Did not try Win2K or NT.

I AM able to load and use any DOS-Based program(s) with no problems.

So, I took all of the cards and put them into a different COMPUTER and was able to load XP Pro the first time!

I am thinking that it has to be either the CPU (AMD Athlon 1 GHz) or the motherboard.

So, the question now becomes: "Why will DOS programs work and not Windows?

Gene, WØQFC