Help Win Window 98

Hello All,

I have a "major" problem with my PC. He goes...I got a HP Pavilion x1963. I'm repairing the PC for a good friend of mine. Running Win 98 operating system.

At first..all that came up was the HP "blue" screen. I reset the battery (resetting the BIO's).
Now it comes up with a "black screen" showing all the "Ram "..esc.

Now comes a "menu" that says......

Microsoft CD Startup Menu

1. Boot from Hard Drive
2. Boot from CD ROM

If I chose #1 (from HD)...nothing happens. Just a black screen.
If I chose #2 (CD-ROM) I go through all the options....getting to setting up Windows 98.

I chose "install" and it says I don't have enough HD space. I have a 30 Gig HD.
I thought about "F-disk" the system...I can even do that !
I even try a "floppy" bootdisk....no luck.

I am running out of options here..please he me !!!

Thanks,
dr911

 

once you clear the bios, you must reconfigure it if you expect the PC to work.
You must tell it what hard drive it has (or autoconfigure it ) if you expect it to find the boot sector on that drive.
Same with the processor, you must tell it what one it has so it sets the speed etc correctly to run the processor.

How to configure your bios