OK guys, I just had an extremely funky bootup...any ideas?

[Scouzer]

So I boot her up this morning, just to find Windoze 98SE crashed on loading...it hasn't done this for years...I know immediatly something is wrong! So the Safe Mode crap comes up, I choose Normal Mode and get to Windows to find 16 Colours, 640x480! Ack, so I try to fix that and my vid card drivers magically disapeared from the face of the Earth! Now I was really thinking 'WTF'! So I managed to change the color to normal and it says I have to reboot even though I have it set to apply without rebooting....then my screen goes to hell and gets all flaky and lines all over the damn place! Now I'm getting worried...so I reboot and everything is normal...my drivers are back but after opening a couple IE Windows and Winamp thinking all was fine it hard locked - yes you immediatly say its cuz its Win98SE has crashing problems. Well mine doesn't. My thoughts are I burnt the RAM (PC 133@150) that I just got yesterday. I clocked it back down to normal and it *seems* better now but I can't say for sure until I do a few hours of gaming and I can't do that right now...FYI I didn't startup in Safe Mode I know that for sure...scanning for viruses now.

 

[Cattlegod]

its a side effect of o'cing to much. i figured you had it clocked to high even before you said you over clocked it. don't run it so high and you should have to many probs

 

[Scouzer]

I have 2 options:

1) OC the CPU and don't OC the RAM (I have a 100FSB P3)
2) OC the RAM at 100fsb

My only RAM speed options in my BIOS are:
3/4
1/1
3/2

So with 100fsb 3/2 of that is 150mhz..slowest setting I can run it at without it being just as slow as my old PC 100...I bought the PC 133 for a reason!

 

[NakaNaka]

or you could not Overclock

 

[Degenerate]

you should also considfer formatting

 

[murdock2525]

www.grc.com Spinrite GO GET IT

 

[Scouzer]

Well today after work I'll get my lazy ass working and switch my new HD to Primary and install Windoze on it I guess.

 

[MichaelD]

Man, that stinks. Good luck getting everything back to normal. A few things. You're OCing your FSB way too high (IMO). It stresses your RAM as well as all your PCI/AGP cards. But you knew that. I'd reset to stock speeds, run every utility you've got, fix any errors, defrag and check it out then.

I OC too. But only mildly. One up on the mult and only a 107 FSB. I've found it give me a nice perfomance boost, w/o any ill side effects. I know that once you've gotten used to the speed, it's hard to go back, but it's for the better (longer life) of your components. Good luck.

 

[Scouzer]

Nonono the FSB isn't at 150, the RAM is! The RAM was running at 3/2 with the FSB its at 1/1 now and I just had to go through the crappy bootup again... everything is clocked stock now... well I got a day of work ahead of me... hope to hear some good ideas when I get home guys... thanks.

 

[julianf]

talk about funky bootup? i had my machine turned on for 3days in a pretty warm room, i got to it, and it worked fine. after 5 min. of working on it, it stalled. i thought ok computers does this.. so i reset. and it got to scan the scsi bus, no devices, my whole system all disks and all cd-r cd-rom is scsi... aik! i turned the machine off. waited for 5 min. and turned it on again, dates where all wrong, bios rev. was all f***** up the scsi bios found my cd-r and rom but they where called ¤%KFO¤%KF and stuff like that. i thought danm 7months of recording out the window.. i kicked the machine so it allmost flew across the room... and went home in furious anger!, next dey i went back. turned it on and everything was fine... strange thing was that the temp.monitors in the bios was showing ok temps. and i felt on cpu and mobo, that was ok... spooky.. thats where i found out that if you run on a 16bit kernel like win98/me/95 you shouldn't let your scsi bios scan for your lvd drives... leave them out, and you get your speed right. 80mb/s