Are Hercules 3DProphet2 GTS (geforce 2), asus A7V motheboard and Win98se compatible?

[Theraven]

I have bought my computer about a month ago and have the following specs:

Asus A7V motheboard
AMD Thunderbird 900 Mhz
300W power supply
256 Meg ram PC133
Hecules 3D Prophet 2 GTS 64Mb
Sound Blaster Live Value

Here's the problem: (I removed my sound card to try and isolate the problem)
-I install Windows 98SE. no problem
-I install the VIA chipset drivers including the agp drivers. no problem
-I install the Promise Ultra ATA 100 IDE controller drivers. no problem(the A7V has 2 ATA/66 IDE connectors and 2 Ultra ATA/100 IDE controllers)
-I install the drivers for the 3D Prophet and now Win98SE crashes each time I try to restart my computer. There is no problem if I tell Windows to shutdown but crashes instead of rebooting.

I have all the latest drivers for my chipset, my agp and my video card. I have the latest bios revision (1004c) and the bios version of my video card is more recent than the ones I can find on their home page.

PLEASE HELP.

 

[Nightmercy]

Can anyone offer some advice? I have the exact same set-up, and am getting very similar results, after "upgrading" to the Herc MX...

 

[JackHawksmoor]

Wow Raven, it looks like we have exactly identical systems, except I've got a Thunderbird 1Ghz. Mine crashes constantly, but only when I'm using my modem (see my other post-I'm probably going to trash the board and processor for an 815/Pentium 3).

Anyway, let me see if I understand this. You're stable, unless you tell Windows to restart, but then it just hangs and never restarts? I occasionally have that problem in WindowsME (whether I'm rebooting or shutting down), but usually it shuts down fine.

I'm running Nvidia's newest reference drivers (the real ones off thier site), Via's newest drivers, and Asus's newest Bios on thier site. So if you're running something different, maybe that's what's causing the problem?

 

[FluxCapacitor]

First I would check your Device Manager under System Properties, click Properties with "Computer" highlighted and check your IRQs to see if your video card is sharing resources with another device. While you're at it, check all your devices to see if they're sharing resources. If they are, and you have free resources, see if you can "Assign IRQ to AGP" in the BIOS and force it to use it's own. Also, you can free IRQs by disabling unused COM and PARALELL ports.

Could be the cause of Jack's problems also.

Worth a shot if you haven't already checked it.

 

[FluxCapacitor]

By the way, do you happen to have a NIC card installed in your system?

 

[Mem]

I wonder if this is something to do with motherboard settings on ASUS,since there are people running same setup with no problems,I`ve a similar setup,900mhz T-bird ,Geforce2 MX,MSI K7T PRO,SBLive value 1024 etc which is rock solid on gaming & everything else.

Anyway I use the 6.31 drivers,have you disabled fastwrites in BIOS,disable all video shadowing,try running AGP 2X you should be able to run 4xAGP like I do once you find the problem for crashing,try slower memory settings for your ram, are you using Nvidia drivers? if not try these don`t forget to remove old ones first.

 

[Nightmercy]

Asus has posted that this is a problem with their board...
Go to Asus' web-site and check their FAQs.
I spoke with a rep from Hercules on this.