Recent content by mortoma

Heck, when I take showers the water is probably that hot!!

With 1gb of RAM, in most games your computer should not have to access the HD at all!! The program code itself and all the sound and video data should be loading into the RAM when the game first loads, no further access of the HD should be needed in most cases, with most games. Sounds like you...

I have a AMD Athlon XP-2100 Palamino ( I'm running it as I write this ) and it has been running 50 to 55C for 3 and 1/2 years with no problems. That seems hot but really it's only about 122 degrees F and you could touch something that hot without burning yourself at all. As a matter of fact...

Almost forgot, my drive didn't beep so that might be something to think about. A modern HD consists of lots of electronic chips, resistors, capacitors, diodes and motors that drive the platters and the arms which have the magneto read/write heads on them. If something like the motor doesn't...

I had a similar situation where I had a Western Digital HDD that took a surge/spike of some kind. Neither the Bios nor the OS would even detect the drive. But for $70.00, I downloaded a program called "Getdataback" and installed it in Win98. I made the bad drive a slave configuration with the...

Another thing that kills SE during install is if you have just flashed your bios. In that case you have to reset the bios to default settings and set it up all over again from scatch. This happened to me once and I could not get SE installed for anything until I figured that out. As far as...

Well, you probably had trouble loading Win98SE because you might have tried to install it with all the PCI hardware cards already put in. For some reason, Win98SE is only happy if you install it with only the video card, then add sound cards and what have you after the install is finished, one...

I have now tried all of the last four Nvidia Win9X/ME drivers going back to 45.23, all to no avail. I will get my brother to find his original eVGA driver install CD and try their drivers too. Along with their driver install, they have a system they call ADM ( Automated Driver Management ) which...

Well I have 5 slots and it's in the bottom slot, which is the only slot I've ever got it to run in. So moving it is out of the question, so is removing it, as I'm a gamer who needs sounds. I also use my computer for Mp3s and other multimedia, such as watching movies.

I will try that Boomerang, not a bad idea at all. Thanks!! At least you're not one of those people coming in here for no other reason than to try and poke fun of the fact that I still run Win98SE. I knew that was going to happen though. There are a few in every crowd!!!!

Thanks, but those drivers are very old!! That's one of the problems, Asus is not supporting their older cards very well. I have a newer set of Via drivers from http://forums.viaarena.com/ and some of the people over there have posted that Asus is lagging way behind in driver support. They are...

As I have posted, any suggestion that I upgrade to WinXP will be ignored. I am unemployed and can't even afford to buy an OEM version of WinXP Pro I saw at a site the other day for only $50.00!! I will make due with my Win98, which should be able to work with the 5700 and once it does it will...

Actually Win98SE works fine with 1GB or Ram. It's only the OS itself that is limited to 512. According to my Cacheman reports, I use as much a 980Mb of my RAM during a game. If you have the proper settings and tweaks, Win98 runs fantastically with 1GB of RAM. This is a misunderstanding of huge...

By the way, one thing that is confusing is that the Via 4 in 1 driver install wants to install miniport drivers too. Do I need both Via and AMD AGP miniport chipset drivers?? I though the APG port was connected to the nothbridge. Dont have a Asus A7M-266 diagram handy though.

Forgot to state that I have a XP-2100 Palamino processor, for what it's worth.