Ok.. this just started happening I'd say 1 month or so ago...
EVERYTHING crashes on this machine now, seemingly randomly. I.E Internet explorer will BSOD, or "illegal operation" a lot. Counterstrike will sometimes just "vanish" while playing it, and it NEVER can switch maps (it will always say "map does not match server) once in-game. Also seemingly random apps seem to crash.
hell, I yanked the SCSI drives and threw a brand new maxtor 40 gigger in last night, and tried to re-install windows and THE INSTALL FREAKING gave me "illegal operation". Didn't seem to harm much, as I'm in windows right now.. but still.
I did pull windows off my old hard drive, so it's not a "fresh" copy I guess if the drive is somehow corrupting things. But I doubt it.
I've re-installed windows, put in a new hard drive, tried different RAM.. I thought the CPU (PII300 sl2w8) might be overheating so I bought a golden orb and cracked the plastic case of the thing. That didn't help at all. RAM I highly doubt is the issue because it's the same RAM as before this stuff started happening, and is PC100 (system bus speed is 66mhtz).
setup:
Abit bx6r2
SB Live! Value
3com 3c905b NIC
Vooodoo3 3000
Drive C: Maxtor 40GB UDMA100 5400RPM IDE drive
Drive D: Western Digital 13GB drive
some generic 40X CDROM.
any ideas would be helpful. I can usually figure out whats wrong with these things but this is just stumping me. Strange that is just all of a sudden started happening, system used to be rock solid.
-Phil
EVERYTHING crashes on this machine now, seemingly randomly. I.E Internet explorer will BSOD, or "illegal operation" a lot. Counterstrike will sometimes just "vanish" while playing it, and it NEVER can switch maps (it will always say "map does not match server) once in-game. Also seemingly random apps seem to crash.
hell, I yanked the SCSI drives and threw a brand new maxtor 40 gigger in last night, and tried to re-install windows and THE INSTALL FREAKING gave me "illegal operation". Didn't seem to harm much, as I'm in windows right now.. but still.
I did pull windows off my old hard drive, so it's not a "fresh" copy I guess if the drive is somehow corrupting things. But I doubt it.
I've re-installed windows, put in a new hard drive, tried different RAM.. I thought the CPU (PII300 sl2w8) might be overheating so I bought a golden orb and cracked the plastic case of the thing. That didn't help at all. RAM I highly doubt is the issue because it's the same RAM as before this stuff started happening, and is PC100 (system bus speed is 66mhtz).
setup:
Abit bx6r2
SB Live! Value
3com 3c905b NIC
Vooodoo3 3000
Drive C: Maxtor 40GB UDMA100 5400RPM IDE drive
Drive D: Western Digital 13GB drive
some generic 40X CDROM.
any ideas would be helpful. I can usually figure out whats wrong with these things but this is just stumping me. Strange that is just all of a sudden started happening, system used to be rock solid.
-Phil
didn't help.
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