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welded

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i've recently upgraded my motherboard (abit bx6 to asus a7a266), ram (128mbddr), hard drive (quantum fireball as; old now slave), and added a cd writer. after doing so i have just one problem. it seems randomly on boot up as the desktop loads the screen will go black and the system will lock up. this doesn't always happen, 'only' about 1\3 or 1\2 of the time. i had to remove my 3com network card since this seemed to be causing the lockups 100% of the time (right now it's an older intel card, but at least it works). does anybody have any clue what could be the cause for these random lockups? it's tolerable, but very annoying.

next is a brand new problem. for christmas i got a microsoft wireless intellimouse explorer. i screwed up the installation (got several bsod's) but soon got it working. everything seemed alright until i tried to shutdown. the system stalls on the shutdown spash screen. through trial and error i've determined that i can plug the mouse in (usb) and use it fine and shutdown without incident. however, when i boot up with the mouse connected shutting down becomes a non-option. i've tried uninstalling and reinstalling to no avail. i've removed the intellipoint software but that doesn't help either. i love my new mouse to bits, but i can't free myself from my trusty old ps2 mouse.

i would greatly appreciate any assistance in this matter. it becomes very difficult to use the computer when boot up and shut down are both troublesome.

thanks.

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win98 r2
amd tb 1300
asus a7a266 ddr
128mb ddr ram
20.5gb fireball as hd
8.5gb samsung hd (old creaky slave)
aopen cdr
sb live value
asus v3800 tnt2 ultra agp
intel nic
additional 2 usb ports
usb printer
parallel zip100
standard keyboard
 
When you installed the new motherboard, did you do a clean install of the operating system? If not, back up your data files, format your harddrive and do a clean install of the OS. Of course, make sure you have all of your drivers handy before you do this.
 
heh, that's a whole other can of worms. i formatted and reinstalled several times, actually. i've been running without incident (save for the above) for a few weeks now.
 
Have you run scandisk on both drives to verify that there are no bad sectors?

Now that you have replaced your network card with "an old Intel card", are you saying that your computer is not locking up anymore?
 
i did all of my upgrading several weeks ago, i've just been putting up with the lockups since then. reinstalling the intel card initially seemed to be a satisfactory quick-fix, but it still locks up about 30-50% of the time during boot up. i haven't recently run scandisk since getting everything working properly, but i haven't swapped anything around since then and have only added the mouse. my old hard drive is crap, utter crap. there are something like 5mb worth of bad sectors on it. i find i never use it now anyway so i think i'll take it out.
 
My bad...I saw the 266 in the motherboard's name and made the faulty assumption without doing some further checking. doh!

Since you say this was a motherboard update, did you delete the "Enum" key in your registry (which lists all detected hardware, including old and no-longer used entries)? I'd give that a shot and let your hardware be redetected by Windows 98 SE. This way, you'll ensure you've only got entries from the hardware you currently use.

Have driver disks ready in case Windows asks for them, but you can always point the installer to the the windows\system folder most of the time or one of the other sub folders. You can also just do a "find" for a particular driver that Windows is asking for, that you know is already on the system, and point it to that folder.

Here's a good, graphical step by step:

Enum Key deletion explained

You're really interested in step 2 and following from there.
 
no problem 🙂

i'll give that a shot later today. i found out just what irq was and how to identify what component was using what irq and the intel card and sound blaster live value are both on 10, does this matter? i've been wondering if i should take the nic out and see if i get this boot error at all. suggestions?
 
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