$100 to you if your suggestion fixes this!

[KingCheese]

Alright guys I'm a manager at Best Buy and I will mail out a $100 gift card or just send you straight up cash/check/money order to anyone who has a suggestion that fixes this problem...

Bought a 1.1GHz Athlon T-bird and Asus A7Pro motherboard with 512mb PC133 RK-byte memory. BIOS IS LATEST a71005d!
GeForce II GTS video card that was in old Athlon 750 *slot a* system
27GB western digital hd
30gb maxtor hd
sblive!
ethernet card
creative dxr3 decoder board
tdk 12x writer and 5x creative dvd

ANYWAY! Put the system together, it's not hard, all jumpers on motherboard are set to default for jumperless bios settings.

It posts 1.1ghz 512mb ram blah blah...
I install WinME fine, very fast install, works awesome!
I reboot to setup WinME and POOF BSOD "VPOWERD Initilization Failure, You will need to restart your system. System halted" and nothing...

I have tried the following:
1) Swapping hds, installing fresh on both, etc.
2) Swapping video cards from GeForce II to Voodoo3 3000
3) Swapping memory from pc133 rk-byte to pc100 rk-byte to pc100 Kingston *memory worked in older athlon system*
4) Disabling power management in bios
5) Disabling usb
6) setting ram cas settings from 3 to 2 and 2 to 3
7) Made sure cpu/heatsink were properly mounted and working
8) Tried installing win98se only to get a "vcache intilization error"
9) bareboning it with nothing but video card in

WTF? HELP!
$100 to whoever has a suggestion that fixes this! hey that's a free stick of 256 pc133 ram!

Thanks
Cheese

 

[1KrazyFool]

Did you turn off ACPI support in your BIOS? I'm not sure if that's turned off when you disable power management or not, but try that out.

 

[tjll11a]

Try useing a pci video card and do a clean install (FORMAT). Used this a temp fix to that problem until i got my new mb

Jason

Or possible reason.

If your computer actually boots into windows when you actually power it off and on check this web sight out
http://support.microsoft.com/suppor...=4&src=DHCS_MSPSS_tech_SRCH&SPR=WINME

sorry link very long

 

[controler]

You might try setting the Vcore on the mother board to auto detect. I think the chip is either getting too much power or not enough. If its already on auto detect, look at AMD's white papers for the exact voltage it takes, and try that.

Hope that works :/

 

[iamwiz82]

the video card could be damaged also, try another vid card, as controler said.

 

[mikelou26]

u aint gonna send us nothing
stop lying

 

[BruinEd03]

Have you tried a different Motherboard? Seems like that's the only thing you haven't swapped... =)


-Ed

 

[Emory7]

Change power supply

 

[wxman]

Go the Windows 2000 route. I had the same issue a few months back with 98. My only solution was 2000. Sorry. :disgust:

 

[erikistired]

it sounds like windows and the power management stuff on your board isn't playing nicely. if you haven't tried a fresh install of ME do that first (even tho i'd suggest 98se or 2000 if you must stick with microsoft), and then a new board if that doesn't fix it.

~erik

 

[EY2K]

downgrade the amount of RAM you have, or upgrade to an OS that can handle the memory like Windows 2000 Pro. Now where's my giftcard

 

[emjem]

EY2K

you are totally wrong.

 

[EY2K]

...

 

[AndyHui]

Win98/ME can address up to 4GB of RAM, can use up to a physical maximum of 2GB of RAM, but runs into problems at 512MB of RAM.

You can run with more than 512MB of RAM if you make a few tweaks to the vcache settings. This is where the problem lies for 512MB.

 

[EY2K]

i agree with andyhui, and emjem you are a d*ck

 

[GAZZA]

have you updated the mobo bios recently ?
if so try going back to the original.
Certainly worth doing a bare bones setup/installation.
Do you have system bios cacheable in your bios ?

 

[GeekyNerd]

well ya got a good computer setup but there is one thing I learned when ya build your own computer esp something super new like you have installing windows for the first time can be kinda hectic so usually when I install for the first time ( did this for Windows ME and Win2kpro and Win98se) I would remove every thing from my computer just leave the haddrives in and the video card and the CDROM (no dvd or cdrw if possible DVD no way)...make sure you have all the drivers downloaded for your appropitae hardware and also when windows me starts the little welcome thing hit CTRL ALT DELETE and shut it down ... it can crash your system because of not so good or no drivers for video and sound cards ( ie the removal of sound cards) ALso go in to our bios to MAKE SURE the Advance power management thing is enable also here is something I found on the MS website that might help ya... (try this is safe mode if ya can ( hold down the CTRL key after ya start the computer))

LoadFailed = vpowerd
If the Advanced Power Management (APM) driver determines that your computer
does not support APM, the driver is not loaded. However, APM support might be disabled.
To determine if APM is disabled in Device Manager:
Click Start, point to Settings, and then click Control Panel.
Double-click System, and then click the Device Manager tab.
Double-click to expand System Devices.
Double-click Advanced Power Management Support to open its properties. (If Advanced Power Management Support is not listed, your computer does not support APM.)
Click the Settings tab.
Verify that the Enable Power Management Support check box is selected

dont mess with the ram setting try to leave the bios as it came and make the harddrive and cdrom as auto
oh and hey here is one thing to try use the boot disk and then @ the c promt make a direcotry called like win9x and copy the win9x directory from the CDrom and then install WInME from the harddrive. here is what it should look like ( D: is ur CDrom)
c:\md win9x
c:\cd win9x
c:\win9x>
c:\win9x>copy d:\win9x *.*
once the files are copied go to the directory and type in setup and hit enter

c:\win9x> setup

also ya might want to try to use a regular CDrom drive and not a dvdrom or CDRW