Need help with Via 4 in 1 on Abit KT7A VGART issues??

[compudog]

I'm building a new PC for a friend. Here's the hardware.

Abit KT7A
AMD Athlon 1.2 GHz AVIA
256 MB PC-133 SDRAM
Asus V7100 Magic Pure GeForce2MX AGP
Hitachi 12X DVD
HP CD-Writer Plus 9340i
Maxtor DiamondMax UDMA100 7200RPM 61.4GB

Here's what's happening. On a clean install of Win98SE, machine boots fine. I d'loaded the latest Via 4 in 1 drivers. I install them selecting all options, reboot. When Windows starts, I get an endless loop of explorer errors. The little warning dialog with the detail button comes up, when you clear it, the big white error box comes up with the options close and ignore. You can't clear them as they keep coming back.

I boot into safe mode and system is fine. I fdisked and re-formated and did the clean install again, not installing the 4 in 1 drivers. I installed the Asus drivers for the vid card and I still get errors, but not the endless loop described above. I get errors in Rundll32, DIBENG.dll and some others.

All the hardware is new. I removed all the non-related cards from the PC (sound, modem, network) I have BIOS configured normally and I am not overclocking. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks. I am starting to get upset...

 

[Bozo Galora]

Is your Win 98SE an original or a (cough) copy?
Something is corrupted here.
Assuming youre using the original ASUS Driver CD - that must be O.K., but you never know.
Try an old driver like 5.32 downloaded from www.guru3d.com
I would do a thorough DOS virus scan first to check out O/S disc if it was a D/L.
Dibeng.dll (Win 98 cab 31) may be corrupted, so I have linked below to a fresh one.

"Display driver problems can cause random GP faults

Is a Windows system on your network that constantly suffering from random General Protection (GP) faults? If so, you may see this error message:

*Program Name* caused a general protection fault in module DIBENG.DLL

This error message usually indicates that an incompatible video card driver is causing the problem. To troubleshoot the problem, you need to configure Windows to use the its standard VGA driver. If the error situations cease when you use this generic driver, the video card driver may be corrupt or incompatible.

To resolve the situation, you need to download and install updated drivers for your video card. One of the best places on the Web to find updated drivers is the Drivers Headquarters at www.drivershq.com. "

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Edit: This card has that twin view shiznit, have you disabled it? I bought a Visiontek MX and had to give it back - wouldn't work properly on a CAD program oriented box. Went GF2 GTS - no probs.