I need help with my Dragon plus!!! PLEASE I NEED TO FIX THIS SOON!

[stevens]

I have tried installing WIN98se 4 times today and just finished a clean install of it. When i get it installed i have not been able to install all of the drivers without having the entire sysytem fail and i get blue sceens that say cannot write to drive C, then after i click out of that it get all these error messages saying i need to install windows again. Can anyone help me figure this out?

This is what i am trying to run.

Soyo Dragon plus
onboard LAN
onboard Sound
Raid 0
2 20gig maxtor hd
teac floppy
lite on 24x cd burner

Is there a special order in which i should install the drivers. I am running on the bios that came with the mother board and am using the driver cd that came with the mother board.

 

[Maki]

One of the things I found to be useful was to set the hard disk to the stupidest IDE transfer mode possible in the bios. PIO mode 0 or something like that.

It takes nothing special for windows to write to that. Once you are up and running install all your drivers, reboot, and enable a faster (UDMA) mode for the hard disk.

I've no idea if this will help. But that is the only way I've ever been able to install windows on a VIA based motherboard.

 

[stevens]

I have no problems installing WIN98. My problems come when i try and install the drivers. I am not possitive but i think that it could have something to do with the onboard audio drivers. Could anyone confirm this?

 

[romanji]

Do you have the newest bios installed?? When I got my first Soyo Dragon+ it had the oldest bios and I had a hard time installing windows. It would lock up during the install and wouldn't work properly in windows either. I had to underclock to get anything to install or work even half-assed. I had to RMA my first board for a bios glitch. When I got my second board it had the newest bios and it installed windows and worked great with no freezeup or anything. I think the newest bios is very important for the Dragon+ to work right. I think the first Dragon+ bios should not be used as it is flawed. You probably have the newest bios but worth a shot.

 

[Wind]

Try disabled the onboard sound & LAN first.

After Win installed all other driver w/ no probs. Then enabled the sound only...let Win install driver....then enabled the LAN....Win install....

C if this help.

 

[stevens]

I gave up on the raid idea b/c i think that was what was wrong and have disabled lan and sound and installed the via 4 in 1 drivers and am trying to install my radeon drivers but it says that my monitor inst set at the right display or something and i cannot get it to go any higher than 16 colors and 640x480. Any ideas on what to do?

 

[stevens]

anyone?

 

[NelsonMuntz]

<< I gave up on the raid idea b/c i think that was what was wrong and have disabled lan and sound and installed the via 4 in 1 drivers and am trying to install my radeon drivers but it says that my monitor inst set at the right display or something and i cannot get it to go any higher than 16 colors and 640x480. Any ideas on what to do? >>


The machine is having difficulty with your video card drivers. You need to install the latest drives from your video card manufacturer and make sure they are the right ones for the card you have in there. I have done a lot of work with ATI video cards and sometimes if I don't know exactly what type of card I am putting in it is a pain to figure out what drivers I should be using. I downloaded a utility recently that tells me what ATI chipset is being used and basically spells out which driver I need to install so I don't run into those problems much anymore. The ones that use to always get me were the Xpert series like Xpert@Play or Xpert128 or Xpert98 or Xpert99 or Xpert2000. A lot of slightly different chipsets in there. If I installed the wrong one I would get all kinds of BSOD errors and would have to reboot and then it would say my settings were incorrect. I have finally gotten the issues worked out, so I hope this can help you in some way.