Trying to install Windows 7 or 10

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David Wedell

I have an industrial computer, an Advantech PCA-6003V-00A2E CPU on a card. This is a Pentium III, and has IDE HD, Floppy, Memory, I/O, and other add-ons. It goes into a passive backplane motherboard, along with some extra cards.


I have purchased both WIN 7 and 10 in both 32-bit and 64-bit. I'm trying to install with a new hard drive, but am encountering problems. I've tried installing by booting up the DVD drive (a SATA attached to a Startech PCI card), which didn't want to boot up. I "assume" that is because SATA is not native to the card. I also tried both IDE hard drive and SATA. Even tried to attached a CDROM to the 2nd IDE port, and tried to install Windows 98 SE; even had the boot diskette. No luck.


I was able to install MS-DOS 3.30; which is not a help. Even tried taking the hard drive home and installing onto another computer. Then installed Windows 7 32-bit and also tried Windows 10 32-bit there. Got the drive to work, but when I tried it back in the system; no luck even getting it to boot up.


Not sure if it is possible to make this system work in a Windows environment.


Any ideas would be appreciated.


1.3.1 System
• CPU: Intel Celeron up to 533 MHz ~ 1.2 GHz, Pentium® III up to 1.26
GHz, FSB 66/100/133 MHz
• BIOS: Award Flash BIOS, 2 Mb
• System Chipset: VIA Apollo PLE133T (VT8601T + VT82C686B)
• Green function: Supports power management operation via BIOS.
Activated by keyboard or mouse activity
• PCI enhanced IDE hard disk drive interface: Supports up to four
IDE large hard disk drives or other enhanced IDE devices. Supports
PIO mode 4 (16.67 MB/s data transfer rate) and Ultra DMA/33/66/100
(33/66/100 MB/s data transfer rate). BIOS enabled/disabled
• Floppy disk drive interface: Supports up to two floppy disk drives,
5¼" (360 KB and 1.2 MB) and/or 3½" (720 KB, 1.44 MB, and 2.88
MB). BIOS enabled/disabled
1.3.2 Memory
• RAM: Up to 1GB in two available 168-pin DIMM sockets. Supports
PC100/ PC133-compliant SDRAMs
• ECC (parity DRAM only): Modules can detect multi-bit memory
errors. Correction of 1-bit memory errors

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