Hi all, I've been having trouble setting up my computer.
Specs are:
Duron 600,
MSI K7T Pro2A,
192MB pc133 ram,
ATI Radeon 32DDR,
Adaptec 2940UW (id 7, auto termination),
Western Digital 10k, 18.3 hd (id 2),
Internal scsi Zip (id 1, terminated),
Plextor 40X (id 3),
Toshiba 12X IDE DVD drive,
floppy
That's everything I have put together in the case.
First I went into the mobo bios and told it that Floppy A was gonna be a 1.44mb 3.5in drive. I fdisked the hard drive and formated C, then went and installed Win98SE on it. The very first thing after Windows installation was the installation of the VIA 4in1 drivers that came on the mobo CD, 4.25(1). After rebooting, I specify the amount of disk space to use as virtual memory (256mb). The next thing I install is the video card drivers, along with the ATI apps. This is where the problem enters. After the first or second reboot, instead of booting into Windows, I got to the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" (Orange letters on black background) screen. I cannot do anything but to hard reboot, then instead of safe mode, I boot into normal mode. Things seemed ok until I opened the display properties dialog. The information part properly shows a Mag DJ800 on Radeon DDR, but I cannot go above 16bit color, and 1024x768. What's more weird is whenever either setting is changed, instead of getting the usual "windows will change your display settings, if something goes wrong, wait for 15 sec" message, I am prompted to reboot, in which case I get to the "Safe to shut down" screen again.
I am suspecting that there may be something I didn't set in the mobo BIOS?? Perhaps some AGP settings? Can it be the SCSI card and the hard drive??
Any ideas???
thanks!!
Specs are:
Duron 600,
MSI K7T Pro2A,
192MB pc133 ram,
ATI Radeon 32DDR,
Adaptec 2940UW (id 7, auto termination),
Western Digital 10k, 18.3 hd (id 2),
Internal scsi Zip (id 1, terminated),
Plextor 40X (id 3),
Toshiba 12X IDE DVD drive,
floppy
That's everything I have put together in the case.
First I went into the mobo bios and told it that Floppy A was gonna be a 1.44mb 3.5in drive. I fdisked the hard drive and formated C, then went and installed Win98SE on it. The very first thing after Windows installation was the installation of the VIA 4in1 drivers that came on the mobo CD, 4.25(1). After rebooting, I specify the amount of disk space to use as virtual memory (256mb). The next thing I install is the video card drivers, along with the ATI apps. This is where the problem enters. After the first or second reboot, instead of booting into Windows, I got to the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" (Orange letters on black background) screen. I cannot do anything but to hard reboot, then instead of safe mode, I boot into normal mode. Things seemed ok until I opened the display properties dialog. The information part properly shows a Mag DJ800 on Radeon DDR, but I cannot go above 16bit color, and 1024x768. What's more weird is whenever either setting is changed, instead of getting the usual "windows will change your display settings, if something goes wrong, wait for 15 sec" message, I am prompted to reboot, in which case I get to the "Safe to shut down" screen again.
I am suspecting that there may be something I didn't set in the mobo BIOS?? Perhaps some AGP settings? Can it be the SCSI card and the hard drive??
Any ideas???
thanks!!
