my computer is wonky, help :)

[Soybomb]

Long ago I had an 18 gig maxtor drive running win98 and redhat linux. It was good. One day I popped in a 40 gig maxtor, hooked it up to the Abit BE6 rev2's onboard ata66/100 controller and installed win2k and redhat. All was not well anymore.

I experience frequent lockups out of the blue where the mouse cursor disappears. The computer continues to play mp3s and the keyboard numlock keys function, but I cannot get to the task manager or anything, I must reboot. Okay that was a pain, but livable.

Also when I play counterstrike every once in a while I get a stop error 0x0000001E for nv4_disp.dll The latest detanator drivers from nvidia did nothing.

Now I've noticed that after I press the reset switch frequently I'm greeted with "BIOS ROM Checksum error" That scared the hell out of me. I notice though that I turn the power off and power back on again, it boots fine. I figure this is about where I need to do something.

I'm swapped out all my ran, run the cpu at default speeds and voltages, what else should I try on this thing?
Thanks guy

 

[bigbootydaddy]

clear cmos in case you missed something??

also, cntrl shift esc brings up 2k task manager.

what mouse?? ive been having trouble with my via board, and logitech mouses.

booty

 

[Soybomb]

MS PS2 intellimouse, just basic 2 buttons and a wheel, and yup I've set bios back to all default pre-tweaked status

Everything was fine under 98, it was just when I put in the new HD and 2k that things started getting weird.

Something else I notice that is weird is that I have my old 18 gig drive plugged into the onboard ata33 controller. I have all pwoer management functions turned off in the bios and in windows. I from time to time hear that hard drive spin up though, even when I'm not sitting at the computer. I have no idea why windows is pwoering down that drive and then powering it on seemingly randomly since I'm running no servers or anything

 

[bigbootydaddy]

and you are using a ata100 cable right?

booty

 

[tommigsr]

here's a suggestion, go bak to win98

 

[Soybomb]

Yup brand new, right out of the box, switched it with anothr one just to be sure.

Win98 is cool and all, but I do sorta like fat32, the added stabillity of 2k and the better tcp/ip stack.

 

[Soybomb]

Anyone?

 

[qIat]

checksum error eh? well, when a comp boots up, it goes through a series of checks, but something obviously is wrong. your cpu may be dying, or something isn't seated properly

 

[Soybomb]

I believe it was like a bios checksum error, first thing I've done is make a bios restore disk, thats one thing abits have going for them