velvtelvis
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Hi folks.
I am now choking down my geek pride and asking for help.
This is my first time making a 'puter from scratch, though I've been canabalizing them for years.
Here's what I've got:
I'm attempting to use win98 SE
I'm using the newest via 4-in-one drivers, and the newest AGP driver from ASUS.
The problem(s)?
I can't get the damn thing stable.
When I get win98 on it, it seldom lasts more than 20 restarts without crashing to the point of requiring a re-install. Someties it finaly freezes and won't go into windows anymore, though safe-mode will work most of the time. Sometimes it detects an error to the registry and gets in the damn cycle of restoring everything to a clean install from a backup. Sometimes it will just be a "General protection fault, please restart windows" before it can even get to a GUI. I've tried different configurations, finaly putting everything on the ATA/66 bus with the HD as primary master and CD and secondary master, so I can boot to the CD if needed. I'm having the BIOS auto-detect both, as that seems to be how I get the farthest. I'm using jumperless BIOS settings for now. I've tried using both fdisk and the Maxtor disk-manager software to set up the drive, with different partion options tried as well. I'm currently running the memory at 100mhz as it complains when i try and set it to asnych at 133mhz, booting me back into the BIOS setup.
I've tried instaling the VIA AGP drivers at both regular and turbo modes, and have tried both normal and fast settings in the BIOS. I've tried variations in the size of the AGP apature, 32 and 64 megs. I've tried using DMA and not. I've tried setting the IDE devices with the jumpers and setting them to cable-select. I suppose it could be running a little hot, but it's only a 600mhz and it's running caseless. The hottest I've seen it get is 105 or so.
I burned sci-soft sandra to a CD and installed it before it died this last attempt, and it complained that AGP and PCI bus speeds were too high, but i'm going with the defaults.
What is left to try, short of booze?
😕🙁
Hi folks.
I am now choking down my geek pride and asking for help.
This is my first time making a 'puter from scratch, though I've been canabalizing them for years.
Here's what I've got:
- Asus A7V, bios flashed to most recent release
- Duron 600 (I'm cheap, wating for prices to go down on the T-birds)
- Quantum-Fireball lct10 10.2 gig 5.7k rpm HD
- 128 megs generic 130mhz ram
- ati all-in-wonder 128 AGP w/32megs RAM
- Diamond Monster MX400 sound card
- assorted 32x CD-roms, tried several, no difference
- Generic winmodem with moterola chipset
I'm attempting to use win98 SE
I'm using the newest via 4-in-one drivers, and the newest AGP driver from ASUS.
The problem(s)?
I can't get the damn thing stable.
When I get win98 on it, it seldom lasts more than 20 restarts without crashing to the point of requiring a re-install. Someties it finaly freezes and won't go into windows anymore, though safe-mode will work most of the time. Sometimes it detects an error to the registry and gets in the damn cycle of restoring everything to a clean install from a backup. Sometimes it will just be a "General protection fault, please restart windows" before it can even get to a GUI. I've tried different configurations, finaly putting everything on the ATA/66 bus with the HD as primary master and CD and secondary master, so I can boot to the CD if needed. I'm having the BIOS auto-detect both, as that seems to be how I get the farthest. I'm using jumperless BIOS settings for now. I've tried using both fdisk and the Maxtor disk-manager software to set up the drive, with different partion options tried as well. I'm currently running the memory at 100mhz as it complains when i try and set it to asnych at 133mhz, booting me back into the BIOS setup.
I've tried instaling the VIA AGP drivers at both regular and turbo modes, and have tried both normal and fast settings in the BIOS. I've tried variations in the size of the AGP apature, 32 and 64 megs. I've tried using DMA and not. I've tried setting the IDE devices with the jumpers and setting them to cable-select. I suppose it could be running a little hot, but it's only a 600mhz and it's running caseless. The hottest I've seen it get is 105 or so.
I burned sci-soft sandra to a CD and installed it before it died this last attempt, and it complained that AGP and PCI bus speeds were too high, but i'm going with the defaults.
What is left to try, short of booze?
😕🙁
