I posted this with no reply in the 'Technical Support' forum...please, somebody help as I really need my main box up and running properly 
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Please help me! I know Window$ 98 is buggy, and severely unstable, but the state of my current system is just ridiculous...
When I first built my system it had 128MB of unbranded DDR266 RAM in it - it was severely unstable. After much fooling around with the system (including reseating the memory, putting it in the other slot etc.), I eventually put in a stick of 128MB unbranded PC100 SDRAM. The system then ran fine (well as fine as can be expected i.e. the odd IE6 crash here or there).
A few days later, when all was running fine, I started fiddling around with CPUCool (a software OCing prog, as well as a system monitor). I upped the FSB every so slightly, putting my CPU clock speed up to 1109MHz. The PCI/AGP and memory bus ran 0.9 faster. The system seemed to run OK (although temps weren't good - about 63 degrees celcius - as I need to add some more cooling), but I decided just to revert to the normal clock speed. When I next rebooted (not OCed) the system was quite unstable.
Now, here's the puzzle - is it that the SDRAM I swapped for the DDR is bad, and that it's a coincidence that after fiddling with the bus speeds that the memory problem was highlighted, or is it likely to be something else? I don't have any branded SDRAM or DDR to try at the moment, so any suggestions would be great
The system instabilities come in the form of...
- frequent explorer illegal operations.
- Window$ protection errors (ha ha - protection; why can't they damn well get it right to start with!) e.g. "Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer. Press any key to continue..."
- random freeze ups.
I don't even need to be running any programs for this to happen. I just left my computer rebooting, went upstairs to check it, moved the mouse and I got a Window$ protection error :-S
Here's my system:
ECS K7S5A Mobo
AMD Duron 1.1GHz (not OCed. OEM)
128MB unbranded PC100 SDRAM
Linksys LNE100TX NIC
Creative SoundBlaster 16
S3 ViRGE DX/GX
Seagate 40GB 5,400 RPMS HDD
FDD
Philips CD-RW Drive
Creative 32x CD-ROM Drive
Genius NetScroll+ Mouse
TurboWin Keyboard
TIA for any help - I really need it!
teknodude
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Please help me! I know Window$ 98 is buggy, and severely unstable, but the state of my current system is just ridiculous...
When I first built my system it had 128MB of unbranded DDR266 RAM in it - it was severely unstable. After much fooling around with the system (including reseating the memory, putting it in the other slot etc.), I eventually put in a stick of 128MB unbranded PC100 SDRAM. The system then ran fine (well as fine as can be expected i.e. the odd IE6 crash here or there).
A few days later, when all was running fine, I started fiddling around with CPUCool (a software OCing prog, as well as a system monitor). I upped the FSB every so slightly, putting my CPU clock speed up to 1109MHz. The PCI/AGP and memory bus ran 0.9 faster. The system seemed to run OK (although temps weren't good - about 63 degrees celcius - as I need to add some more cooling), but I decided just to revert to the normal clock speed. When I next rebooted (not OCed) the system was quite unstable.
Now, here's the puzzle - is it that the SDRAM I swapped for the DDR is bad, and that it's a coincidence that after fiddling with the bus speeds that the memory problem was highlighted, or is it likely to be something else? I don't have any branded SDRAM or DDR to try at the moment, so any suggestions would be great
The system instabilities come in the form of...
- frequent explorer illegal operations.
- Window$ protection errors (ha ha - protection; why can't they damn well get it right to start with!) e.g. "Windows protection error. You need to restart your computer. Press any key to continue..."
- random freeze ups.
I don't even need to be running any programs for this to happen. I just left my computer rebooting, went upstairs to check it, moved the mouse and I got a Window$ protection error :-S
Here's my system:
ECS K7S5A Mobo
AMD Duron 1.1GHz (not OCed. OEM)
128MB unbranded PC100 SDRAM
Linksys LNE100TX NIC
Creative SoundBlaster 16
S3 ViRGE DX/GX
Seagate 40GB 5,400 RPMS HDD
FDD
Philips CD-RW Drive
Creative 32x CD-ROM Drive
Genius NetScroll+ Mouse
TurboWin Keyboard
TIA for any help - I really need it!
teknodude
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