🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi NEWS community,

I am running into big trouble while trying to install
WIN 95 (OSR 2.1) / 98 / NT on my IWILL XA100 rev.1.2 board.

The configuration is minimized to the mainboard,
AMD K6-2 3D-NOW 300MHz , 64MB PC100 DRAM (officially 
approved by IWILL), Seagate 4,3GB HDD , Mitsumi 32 
speed ATAPI cdrom , Hercules Terminator 128/3D GLH 
AGP graphics card.

did a BIOS update to ver. 0723b but the problem is still 
the same:

When installing WIN95B I always get an error : msgsrv32
during the hardware setup phase while the automatic
reboot of the setup process is done.

WIN98 setup struggles at the same step, but the error
is that it cannot open user.exe although the file is
on the hard disk.

Reducing the bus speed and also using a cheap ISA S3 
graphic adapter doesn't change anything. tried another 
harddisk, cdrom drive, connector cable, different OS
cd roms, no success....
the only thing i haven't replaced (yet) is the 
motherboard, the processor and the SD RAM

I am aware that I need to install the driver coming with
IWILL and Mitsumi and Hercules, but I even do not come
to the point to do so.

Windows 3.1 could be installed without problems and also 
Linux SuSe 5.3 works fine (I didn't test a lot, but 
at least the installation succeeded) .
WIN NT also fails with errors stating that files could not
be copied from the original NT cd (files _are_ on the cd)

Contacting Iwill-support didn't bring me a step forward.
I only got returned a cookbook describing things I cannot
do as I do not come to a valid windows screen where I can
do anything !

Any ideas/hints/experience appreciated !

Thanks a lot,
Wolfgang