Hello everyone,
I am having some instability problem with my current setup which consists of the following:
ASUS A7V133 with 1005A BIOS (original was 1004),
Thunderbird with C marking 1.3G 266 MHz,
256MB Hyundai 133 MHz RAM,
Maxtor 20GB 5400 rpm HDD,
Memorex 40X CDROM,
Leadtek Winfast NVidia 200 MX AGP video card,
1.44 floppy disk.
The HDD is connected to the normal Primary IDE as master and the CDROM is connected to the secondary IDE as slave. In the BIOS setting, the operating freq is set to standard configuration with CPU clock multiplier of 10X, DRAM freq 133MHz, CPU freq 100 MHz.
Initially I had problems with the WIN98SE edition. During power up the BIOS can detect all the devices and I have done the formatting of the HDD with the same platform after booting up via a startup disk. When I wanted to do the WIN98 SE installation, the program would run through the scandisk. After I entered the c:\WINDOWS as the target directory for the WIN98 setup, the system will hang and there will be no respond from the keyboard or mouse.
I lowered the BIOS CPU multiplier in the BIOS to 7.5X, and the installation WIN98SE installation is able to complete. During normal WIN98 operation with the same multiplier setting, there is a tendency for the PC to hang especially when playing large files like mpg from the CDROM. Thinking that it could be a bus mastering problem, i tried playing the same program from the HDD, and the same problem still occurs.
I installed the latest Via 4-in-1 driver update, and the problem is still observed. In addition, using the ASUS probe, the temperature of the CPU is 55 to 57 Celcius prior to the system hanging. I have also increase the multiplier to 10X which I found to be even worse as the system will hang after entering USERID & password in WIN98.
Are there anyone out there having similar problem?
Any suggestion is welcomed. Cheers
I am having some instability problem with my current setup which consists of the following:
ASUS A7V133 with 1005A BIOS (original was 1004),
Thunderbird with C marking 1.3G 266 MHz,
256MB Hyundai 133 MHz RAM,
Maxtor 20GB 5400 rpm HDD,
Memorex 40X CDROM,
Leadtek Winfast NVidia 200 MX AGP video card,
1.44 floppy disk.
The HDD is connected to the normal Primary IDE as master and the CDROM is connected to the secondary IDE as slave. In the BIOS setting, the operating freq is set to standard configuration with CPU clock multiplier of 10X, DRAM freq 133MHz, CPU freq 100 MHz.
Initially I had problems with the WIN98SE edition. During power up the BIOS can detect all the devices and I have done the formatting of the HDD with the same platform after booting up via a startup disk. When I wanted to do the WIN98 SE installation, the program would run through the scandisk. After I entered the c:\WINDOWS as the target directory for the WIN98 setup, the system will hang and there will be no respond from the keyboard or mouse.
I lowered the BIOS CPU multiplier in the BIOS to 7.5X, and the installation WIN98SE installation is able to complete. During normal WIN98 operation with the same multiplier setting, there is a tendency for the PC to hang especially when playing large files like mpg from the CDROM. Thinking that it could be a bus mastering problem, i tried playing the same program from the HDD, and the same problem still occurs.
I installed the latest Via 4-in-1 driver update, and the problem is still observed. In addition, using the ASUS probe, the temperature of the CPU is 55 to 57 Celcius prior to the system hanging. I have also increase the multiplier to 10X which I found to be even worse as the system will hang after entering USERID & password in WIN98.
Are there anyone out there having similar problem?
Any suggestion is welcomed. Cheers
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