Originally Posted by
merry man
i have an old brother pc , it was running windows 95 but had a few problems so i thought i would just reinstall the windows software, i have used f disc and have formatted the hard drive no problem, but when i try and install windows 95 it starts ok and gets to about 60percent and then i get this reocurring problem, the computer has i think got a power saving mode of some description and its as if it goes into like a sleep mode, when i press a key on the keyboard to wake it up the monitor fires up again and then the hard drive can be heard to start up again as if its going to carry on, but then gives an error message that windows was interrupted whilst copying a windows cab file and you cannot get it to carry on, i thought sleep mode or hibernate as its called was done through the software or is it done in the bios settings? i have never come across this before and was unaware of this type of mode in windows 95, any ideas on a cure or should i give the garbage collector a treat? any pointers well appreciated