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Need Help ! ! ! ! ! please. (modified 0 times) BigByte Profile Hello to you all, I’m a new member on this board. Now I have the big problem in regarding to my i-op. I tried to read yours all but there is a lot of topics and many pages to find the topic which would be involved with my problem but it is not clear for me. My brought i-op last 2 years ago and used to run OS with Win98se, that’s OK for work but in a few months ago it was infected the virus and my brother’s son tried to erase it but he did it more terrible problems because he tried to erase all files in Drive C: even command.com. In fact he would try to reinstall a new OS into it again from D:. Then I need help from somebody to advice me now, please...... 1. My i-op is p200 w/ 128kb of ram, 2 partitions for C: and D:. IBM HDD 3.2g. I’m not sure in the version of it now. Drive C, I kept for operating system softwares for all my work; and kept all main programs and including all drivers in D: 2. Currently, every time I would turn it on and start it up, it would run on black screen (same as the general running program for setting up all) and shows me a few words such as “Bios V4.51PG” is in the first row and next row it is “(IPC_TRI) I-Opener Bios v5.0.0 (Pathced) and “Plug in Play Bios Entension v1.0A”. And then it would show me in the screen of win98se a few seconds and it would be back to black screen again with hang. 3. After I entered on the black screee, it would show me “C>” and if I tried to type any words after “C>” it would show me “Type the name of the Command Interpreter (e.g., C:\windows©ommand.com). Now my understanding is it lost the command.com in Drive C: and then required it. 4. Then I typed “D:\source\win98setup©ommand.com” (the dirctoty which I kept all command files) but it showed the same word and then I typed “D:\source\win98setup\setup.exe” It showed me the word “Set up is now going to perform a routing check on your system and press enter to continous”. 5. After I entered it, it’s blue screen w/ white sq. Screen in side the blue. 6. And then after I tried to press ESC a few time, it would show me in the windows 98 setup screen and after I clicked on continous bottom, it show me to Insert Disk and press “OK” or “Cancel” bottoms. 7. Then I had to press “Cancel” bottom because i-op has no CD rom and Floppy disk for insert after that it showed me the box of “Windows 98 setup w/ the word “Setup cannot open file ‘d:\source\win98setup\mini.cab.’ and “OK” bottom. Then I pressed “OK” bottom, it becames to the black screen w/ hang. Now, I need somebody to help how to do it work again please advise me URGENTLY. 1. If I have ot re-install OS please advise me which ones (Win9x, WinME, Win2K) would be suitable for my i-op spec. 2. How I can re-install OS by myself. 3. I have an internal CD Rom tray and I think I’m going to buy a removeable Rack for it and pls advise me can I connect it to my i-op with USB or not. Because USB of Rack is V2.0. 4. Can I re-install OS into my i-op w/ connection by a removeable Rack for CD rom? I hope someone could help me, please w/ THKS. 07-21-2004 16:31:50

RE:Need Help ! ! ! ! ! please. (modified 0 times) oldman Profile | Email BigByte: It looks like you need to start from the beginning. Take the hard drive out of your i-o and put a jumper on to set it as slave. Install the hd in a desktop computer with 40 - 44 pin adapter. Reformat each partition. Make directories (folders) for your operating system install files and for the install files of all programs and all drivers you want on the i-o. Make sure the hd is bootable to a 'c:\' prompt. Put the hd back in the i-o (be sure to take off the jumper). Start up your i-o until you get to the 'c:\' prompt. Change directory (Type in 'CD' to the folder where you put your operating system) and install the o.s. Do the same for all drivers and other programs. I run Win95B on my i-o's because it was the windows version available when the i-o was designed. If possible find an early version of the VIA drivers because the latest drivers do not work well on the i-o. Win95B has support for USB that the first version does not. Any windows 95B or later will support the USB and your USB cd should work. The thread 'DOS ROM Image' tells how to set to USB to run from DOS. You still must install the hd in a desktop computer to install the dos cd drivers. You should be able to read your CD that way, but I would still copy all install files to the hard drive so you do not need to hunt up the install cd to change something. I hope this helps. Have fun, oldman 07-21-2004 21:22:39

RE:Need Help ! ! ! ! ! please. (modified 0 times) BigByte Profile oldman, Thanks for your kindly help. I will try to do it first and if I have more problems let I would be back to ask you again. More thing, as per my i-o spec, I can install Win2K or WinME or not. Thanks. 07-22-2004 13:02:57

RE:Need Help ! ! ! ! ! please. (modified 0 times) vailr Profile Either WinME or Win2000 will install OK. However, WinME is liable to give you aggravation (as it does with any motherboard). Stay with Win98SE, or else choose Win2000. Note: WinXP won't install on any system with a CPU: slower than 225 MHz. After getting the machine working again, I'd also suggest upgrading the flashable bios, to Wild Pencil's version V540. http://briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/wild_pencil Note: since the IOpener has no floppy drive, you need to boot from the HD in "F8: Safe Mode: Command Prompt Only", when flashing the bios. 07-22-2004 14:12:12

RE:Need Help ! ! ! ! ! please. (modified 0 times) BigByte Profile vailr, As per your [Note: since the IOpener has no floppy drive, you need to boot from the HD in "F8: Safe Mode: Command Prompt Only", when flashing the bios.] In fact, I tried to do run it on F8 (all options) before I wrote this topic but it was not success. By the way, thanks for your advice. Now, I'm going to try to take the HDD out from back-sink-cover but still not yet. It looks to be too difficult for me but I will try. If you have more comments, let me know. I'm just the new one in this case. Thanks for yours all / Have fun too. 07-23-2004 01:49:52

RE:Need Help ! ! ! ! ! please. (modified 0 times) vailr Profile Note: Win98SE (or earlier: DOS 6.2, etc.) is required for bios flashing. Later O.S.'s won't allow booting directly from HD into "pure DOS mode", which is required for a successful bios flash. So you'll either need to create a dual-partition, dual-O.S. HD,; or else accomplish the bios flash first, then again remove the HD, attach it via adapter to a desktop machine, wipe the HD, then do a clean install of Win2000. 07-24-2004 10:50:49

RE:Need Help ! ! ! ! ! please. (modified 0 times) vailr Profile Win2000 can be installed from a DOS prompt, if you first run "SMARTDRV.EXE" (found on a Win98 system) from a DOS prompt. So (with a desktop machine running Win98, and also a CD copy of Win2000): 1. Intall via adapter, the laptop HD on a desktop machine, as disk D: 2. From a Win98 command prompt, run "sys D: /s" to make the laptop HD bootable. 3. Copy SMARTDRV.EXE to D: drive. 4. Copy the bios flasher and V540.bin file to D: 5. Copy "i386" folder from a Win2000 CD, to D: 6. Now put the laptop HD in the IOpener. 7. Boot IOpener to a DOS prompt. 8. Run the bios flasher to update to V540. 9. Reboot to a DOS prompt. 10. Run SMARTDRV.EXE. 11. Run "cd /i386"; "winnt.exe" to install Win2000. 07-24-2004 11:07:26

RE:Need Help ! ! ! ! ! please. (modified 0 times) BigByte Profile Hi Oldman & vailr I could not install anythings into my HDD. I found the error after running installation OS win98se. The system showed it's about FAT32 or something likes this, I cannot remember it. Now, I'm afraid it would not work or if you think it would work, let me know and advise. Now I think I'm going to change the new HDD and as per my I-O spec let you comment for the new one pls Thanks. BigByte. 08-17-2004 12:05:48

RE:Need Help ! ! ! ! ! please. (modified 0 times) oldman Profile | Email BigByte: Do you know what version of windows your brother's son was using when he tried to fix your hard drive? If win98SE is showing a FAT32 problem, your hard drive may be partitioned with the earlier FAT16. The differences between FAT16 and FAT32 are complicated, but you do not need to know the differences to get the hard drive to work. FAT32 came out with WIN95B If the HD was partitioned with FAT 16 with the first release of win95 or earlier windows or DOS, that could be your problem. I think you need to partition the hd again (not just format)on a desktop computer that is running WIN95SE so it will be in FAT32, then try what I suggested earlier. This should solve the problem. Keep having fun, oldman 08-17-2004 19:40:17

RE:Need Help ! ! ! ! ! please. (modified 0 times) BadFlash Profile | Email Your original problem was 2 things. 1st the drive wasn't properly bootable, so you got the command interpreter error as it could not find command.com. Did you format the drive with the /s switch? The odd screen is due to the video defaults. It is running scandisk and the screen mode makes it so you can not see what itis doing. You need to manually set the video mode unless you have the V540A bios. mode.com ican be used to set this. The command "mode co80" should fix it. You'll need to locate the mode.com file and put it on your drive. I suggest you upgrade before you install the OS so you can see what you are doing. Just load the flash utility and the bios file on your drive and upgrade first. 08-18-2004 16:45:48

RE:Need Help ! ! ! ! ! please. (modified 0 times) BigByte Profile Hey Oldman and BadFlash, How are you going? As per my I-O spec 1. Processor: 200 MHz WINChip C6 2. Processor type: x86 3. Memory: 128 MB RAM, 16 MB Flash 4. Screen Display: 10" flat panel color LCD display; industry-standard 800x600 screen resolution 5. Modem: Built-in 56kbps, v.90 modem 6. Sound: Yamaha YMF715E-s 7. HDD IBM 3.25 g. Could I change the new 40 g of HDD cap? 03-28-2005 15:05:32

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