Need help with Via 4 in 1 on Abit KT7A

[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...:disgust:

 

[compudog]

...BUMP... Anyone??

 

[cheric4]

Reinstall windows once more and only keep memory, video card and floppy drive. (of course, you need hd, cpu and m/b without saying). If you still have the same problem, switch to another memory stick. And if you STILL have the same problem, it's the m/b. M/B is very hard to troubleshoot problems. O/S just acts weird when m/b has minor defect. Make sure your memory is in the right slot (bank 0)

 

[SnowPunk98]

sounds right try that sounds like ram problem make the ram its default too if you have it overclocked