I have problems with my asus p4c800 mothterboard, i can not boot in dos mode with a bootable usb stick made with win98 kit (on ather pc's my stick does well), i can not install win xp from cd, my cd-rom do not initialize the cd (probably cd-rom is not recognised well by the bios(cd-rom is connected on ide port), i instaled win xp system on a hdd with ather pc, and when i transfered that hdd with SO on it to my p4c800, my p4c800 stoped loading bios at logo screan, hdd is a 160GB SATA (with no system operation on it was recognised by my mothaboard but with winxp instaled on ather pc do what thet freez) how do i instal xp on this mothaboard, is the motaboard gone...? Tnx for helping

Get you favorite bootable ISO image and using "ImageWriter.exe" application (under Windows 7/8) you could "transfer" the ISO to your USB device. In that way, your USB device becomes a bootable device. To boot from a USB device, your laptop should be "equiped" with a proper BIOS. Go to BIOS and change the boot order by having your USB stick already inserted in one of USB port (otherwise, you couldn't select to boot from USB!)

Instead of "ImageWriter.exe" application, you could use also "Win32DiskImager". For any of them, google it!

go to BIOS and set priority boot device to USB if you need to boot from USB

This is either a driver problem or a "hard" hardware problem. When you are in safe mode you should remove the drivers for the onboard lan and the wireless USB. the most likely cause is the wireless stick. So try re installing the usb drivers again from a different source.

If you have set it to boot FIRST from the USB drive, I would suspect that your USB drive is not bootable. Either that or it is defective.
Another cause could be a bad USB port.

You will have to downgrade your BIOS.

Since it cannot boot via a USB stick, you can try making a bootable CD instead. Follow this link to create a bootable DOS CD. Don't forget to include the BIOS files before burning the CD.

http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#cdromsi

You will need to download the BIOS installation software for DOS if they have one from the motherboard manufacturer and the BIOS file. You will then need to make a bootable dos cd-r disc using windows. Once you have done this you can use the disc to start your computer in DOS mode. Then burn the BIOS DOS SOFTWARE and the BIOS FILE on a cd-r. Then you will be able to run the BIOS software from dos and install the bios file. You could also install windows on a USB hard drive then try to boot from it if your computer can boot from USB and the USB boot device option is still working.

you may face either harddisk failure, a driver problem or virus infection:

tools: original win98-cd (or a bootable image

version of it), antivir-software on cd!

- please check whether it is possible to boot from win98-cd, with cd-rom support, not from harddisk.

(such option should be availabe after bios-load is over)

if not:

leave the setup process without fully installing
(press F3 button when asked for repair or install option)

in both cases :

type at the dos-prompt:

c:\win98/win

(command for changing to harddisk, windows-folder, booting windows from harddisk, but without loading all the drivers as usually)

win98 should come up in protected mode or give error messages.

- access cd-drive and execute vir-scan.
- delete and/or repair infected files
- turn down, attempt to reboot from hd
- if still impossible reboot from win98-cd,
run repair of installation and try once again
standard boot

problem solved? if not, take down error messages consult fixya again!

Hi there.
To run fdisk from DOS, you will need the Win98 boot disk instead of the 95 one, it has more option available to you while you are in DOS mode so a 98 boot disk will do the trick.

Thanks for choosing FixYa!!

i need help i have a panasonic cf-27 toughbook with a usb cd drive and usb floppy drive ive tried both seperate and with a multi usb connector to boot both but it doesnt find them can anyone help me?

Hi,

Basically yes. You need to remove the HD from the PC without any bootable devices and install it as a slave to a second PC preferably also Win98.
You can then proceed to format the HD (as FAT32) of the 1st PC on the 2nd PC. Sys that HD to transfer system files and make it active. To facilitate installation of the OS, create a folder on that HD and copy the Win98SE installer files into it. Remove that HD from the 2nd PC and reinstall on the 1st PC. Power and it will boot into Dos.  Go inside the folder where the OS installers are and run "setup".

Alternately, you can just clone the HD of the 2nd PC to the corrupt HD of the 1st PC after format  /s. Just make sure that you still have the Win98SE installers copied to the corrupt HD.

Hope this be of some help/idea. Post back how things went or should you need additional information.

Good luck and kind regards.