DigitalGolem
Junior Member
First my specs:
Win 98se
MSI Geforce 3 ti-500 pro-td
MSI K7T Turbo2 Socket A mobo
Athlon 1600+ XP
creative sound blaster audigy
3com 10/100mbps nic
drivers:
VIA 4in1 4.37v(a)
NVIDIA detonator v21.83
newest audigy drivers
newest 3com drivers
direct x 8.1 (did 8.1 add any known bugs that 8.0a didn't have?)
I'm running Win 98se currently (going to switch to linux lfs 🙂 ) and defrag froze up because my western digital cavier is starting to go bad (it makes weird click noises). I'm just wondering exactly what I should do to find out which files were damaged. I ran scandisk and got back a .chk file which had a list of files and information below each file. Here's a sample:
o c1401af0 156000 "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHELL32.DLL"
R c1401af0 83000 1000
R c1401af0 83000 1000
R c1401af0 1000 1000
R c1401af0 1000 1000
R c1401af0 84000 1000
R c1401af0 85000 1000
R c178bf30 3f400 1000
R c178bf30 40400 1000
R c178bf30 41400 1000
R c1401af0 86000 600
R c17c0ee0 1b000 1000
R c17c0ee0 1000 1000
R c17c0ee0 1000 1000
I'm guessing these are the files that got messed up right? If so I can always replace the damaged files but if this list is something completely different from lost files or if it's only partial then is there any other way to find out the full extent of the damage?
Also, this is less important, after I've had my comp on for about an hour and I've run a few hardware accelerated programs (doesn't matter if it's directx or opengl) any additional programs i launch that use any kind of hardware acceleration perform an illegal operation, even windows media player. I can get this to stop by rebooting but it's becoming kind of a pain. I'm hoping it's something wrong with windows or my drivers and not the card itself. It's an msi geforce 3 ti500 pro-td. The bios used to be 3.20.00.20.12 but when I ran the msi auto update flash utility it "upgraded" it to 3.20.00.20.09, 3 versions lower. As far as I can tell that's supposed to be the newest bios for my card because the program says so. I wanted to check the site (www.msi.com.tw) for any information but they act like video bios doesn't even exist and their forums are a mess. So I'm confused as to why my card would come with a newer bios than the site. I flashed anyway even though it was a downgrade just to erase the one I was using so i would be sure i wasn't using a bootleg bios or anything. It's weird how the bios would be anything strange like that because it was a retail card not oem. I want to know whether the bios was bugged and reporting the wrong number or corrupt or if msi just screwed up and posted an old flash. Also whether this even has anything to do with the crashes.
BTW about a year ago I made a post or two about getting random pausing with my via chipset amd athlon slot a system. I finally found out it was caused by a faulty chipset via released that affected a lot of slot A mobos made at that time. So i upgraded to a socket A athlon xp and now everything's fine. Just in case anyone else was having that problem......
Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me
Win 98se
MSI Geforce 3 ti-500 pro-td
MSI K7T Turbo2 Socket A mobo
Athlon 1600+ XP
creative sound blaster audigy
3com 10/100mbps nic
drivers:
VIA 4in1 4.37v(a)
NVIDIA detonator v21.83
newest audigy drivers
newest 3com drivers
direct x 8.1 (did 8.1 add any known bugs that 8.0a didn't have?)
I'm running Win 98se currently (going to switch to linux lfs 🙂 ) and defrag froze up because my western digital cavier is starting to go bad (it makes weird click noises). I'm just wondering exactly what I should do to find out which files were damaged. I ran scandisk and got back a .chk file which had a list of files and information below each file. Here's a sample:
o c1401af0 156000 "C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\SHELL32.DLL"
R c1401af0 83000 1000
R c1401af0 83000 1000
R c1401af0 1000 1000
R c1401af0 1000 1000
R c1401af0 84000 1000
R c1401af0 85000 1000
R c178bf30 3f400 1000
R c178bf30 40400 1000
R c178bf30 41400 1000
R c1401af0 86000 600
R c17c0ee0 1b000 1000
R c17c0ee0 1000 1000
R c17c0ee0 1000 1000
I'm guessing these are the files that got messed up right? If so I can always replace the damaged files but if this list is something completely different from lost files or if it's only partial then is there any other way to find out the full extent of the damage?
Also, this is less important, after I've had my comp on for about an hour and I've run a few hardware accelerated programs (doesn't matter if it's directx or opengl) any additional programs i launch that use any kind of hardware acceleration perform an illegal operation, even windows media player. I can get this to stop by rebooting but it's becoming kind of a pain. I'm hoping it's something wrong with windows or my drivers and not the card itself. It's an msi geforce 3 ti500 pro-td. The bios used to be 3.20.00.20.12 but when I ran the msi auto update flash utility it "upgraded" it to 3.20.00.20.09, 3 versions lower. As far as I can tell that's supposed to be the newest bios for my card because the program says so. I wanted to check the site (www.msi.com.tw) for any information but they act like video bios doesn't even exist and their forums are a mess. So I'm confused as to why my card would come with a newer bios than the site. I flashed anyway even though it was a downgrade just to erase the one I was using so i would be sure i wasn't using a bootleg bios or anything. It's weird how the bios would be anything strange like that because it was a retail card not oem. I want to know whether the bios was bugged and reporting the wrong number or corrupt or if msi just screwed up and posted an old flash. Also whether this even has anything to do with the crashes.
BTW about a year ago I made a post or two about getting random pausing with my via chipset amd athlon slot a system. I finally found out it was caused by a faulty chipset via released that affected a lot of slot A mobos made at that time. So i upgraded to a socket A athlon xp and now everything's fine. Just in case anyone else was having that problem......
Thanks in advance to anyone who helps me
