I know that if you have an ATA-100 drive on a VIA chipset (I have such a drive on an Epox 8kta2) Windows 2000 will run your drive in PIO mode, which could be the problem you describe.
When I first built this machine I ran into that problem, so just ran Win 98SE on it and the drive worked fine...
I have also had this exact same problem. I tried the mboard update route, but went for the 12/01 drivers. While those helped, it still locked up and would totally freeze when i tried to run bryce.
I tried many, many NVIDIA drivers from 6.08 to 7.18 and they did not seem to make any difference...
I have had this exact same problem. I have an Epox 8kta2 with a Tbird 900 and a GeForce 2 GTS running in win98 se.
I flashed my BIOS to the 12/01/00 version, and it helped some, but I still get that crash on occasion. Also, I noticed while games and most program work fine, I get a screen...
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