Please help!
Setup:
P4P800
2.4C
Geil PC3500
VisionTek Radeon 9500 Pro
Herolchi 350W PSU (the one from Tom's HWG PSU round-up, supposed to be a good unit)
So, this is a new one for me. I've been having a ah heck of a time with my new P4P800. I suspected that I probably had multiple problems, and I believe now I was right. I finally got the memory subsystem stable by running the 9500 Pro at 1.6v, vDIMM at 2.85, 200FSB and 400DDR @ 2-3-4-6, BIOS 1.007. No Turbo, no MAM (haven't been brave enough to try yet). I am no longer getting constant fatal exceptions OE messages -- though I am getting a few fatal exception OB messages that don't hang the system (what's an FE OB?). I'm running Windows 98SE. [EDIT: Please note as below, I've ordered WinXP from Amazon and it will arrive on the 15th. Thanks.]
Suddenly I'm getting Windows Protection Errors. Now, I've had those in the past, and I thought they were specifically related to start-up and shutdown issues. But I'm getting them while installing software off the CDRW or DVD drives. Here's the arrangement. Memtest-86 ran for 8 hours with no errors. Good. I then ran Prime95 torture for another 8 hours. Now, there weren't errors, but it did stop after 8 hours because it was out of memory. Don't know what that might mean. Thoughts? Anyway, So, I don't think its a memory issue. So I want to test it with some gaming. I load 007 Nightfire, currently the only DX8 game that I have, and try to install it. I've got a Toshiba DVD-ROM and an LG CDRW. I put it into the DVD drive and it fails to initialize the Enter Serial Number prompt. Hang. Restart. Put it into the CDRW drive. Serial Prompt shows. Enter serial. Installation commences. I get a prompt to insert Disk 2. I push the button to open the drive. "Windows Protection Error. You must restart your computer. Press any key to coninute." Push a key. "It is now safe to restart your computer."
So I restart. I figure, I'll put disk 1 in the CDRW and disk 2 in the DVD. Double-click DVD icon in My Computer. Windows Protection Error. Okay, so now I wonder if it has something to do with the DVD drive, or possibly the power supply. So I disconnect the DVD. Restart. Start the install from CDRW. The CDRW doesn't even spin up to speed. The installation just sort of stops, doesn't hang, just stops, on a file. End Task. Windows Protection Error. Restart. Delete contents of Windows\Temp and EA Games. Delete registry entries for EA Games and Nightfire. Restart. Attempt install. Gets halfway again. No prompt to insert second disk. Windows Protection Error. Restart. Clear folders and registry. Double-click CD-ROM icon in My Computer. Windows Protection Error.
There were a few other iterations, but you get the idea. I have not idea what's causing this. Suspiscipn: Windows 98 or the PSU. Any thoughts? Please, anything. I've already ordered WindowsXP SP1, so we'll see what that does.
Setup:
P4P800
2.4C
Geil PC3500
VisionTek Radeon 9500 Pro
Herolchi 350W PSU (the one from Tom's HWG PSU round-up, supposed to be a good unit)
So, this is a new one for me. I've been having a ah heck of a time with my new P4P800. I suspected that I probably had multiple problems, and I believe now I was right. I finally got the memory subsystem stable by running the 9500 Pro at 1.6v, vDIMM at 2.85, 200FSB and 400DDR @ 2-3-4-6, BIOS 1.007. No Turbo, no MAM (haven't been brave enough to try yet). I am no longer getting constant fatal exceptions OE messages -- though I am getting a few fatal exception OB messages that don't hang the system (what's an FE OB?). I'm running Windows 98SE. [EDIT: Please note as below, I've ordered WinXP from Amazon and it will arrive on the 15th. Thanks.]
Suddenly I'm getting Windows Protection Errors. Now, I've had those in the past, and I thought they were specifically related to start-up and shutdown issues. But I'm getting them while installing software off the CDRW or DVD drives. Here's the arrangement. Memtest-86 ran for 8 hours with no errors. Good. I then ran Prime95 torture for another 8 hours. Now, there weren't errors, but it did stop after 8 hours because it was out of memory. Don't know what that might mean. Thoughts? Anyway, So, I don't think its a memory issue. So I want to test it with some gaming. I load 007 Nightfire, currently the only DX8 game that I have, and try to install it. I've got a Toshiba DVD-ROM and an LG CDRW. I put it into the DVD drive and it fails to initialize the Enter Serial Number prompt. Hang. Restart. Put it into the CDRW drive. Serial Prompt shows. Enter serial. Installation commences. I get a prompt to insert Disk 2. I push the button to open the drive. "Windows Protection Error. You must restart your computer. Press any key to coninute." Push a key. "It is now safe to restart your computer."
So I restart. I figure, I'll put disk 1 in the CDRW and disk 2 in the DVD. Double-click DVD icon in My Computer. Windows Protection Error. Okay, so now I wonder if it has something to do with the DVD drive, or possibly the power supply. So I disconnect the DVD. Restart. Start the install from CDRW. The CDRW doesn't even spin up to speed. The installation just sort of stops, doesn't hang, just stops, on a file. End Task. Windows Protection Error. Restart. Delete contents of Windows\Temp and EA Games. Delete registry entries for EA Games and Nightfire. Restart. Attempt install. Gets halfway again. No prompt to insert second disk. Windows Protection Error. Restart. Clear folders and registry. Double-click CD-ROM icon in My Computer. Windows Protection Error.
There were a few other iterations, but you get the idea. I have not idea what's causing this. Suspiscipn: Windows 98 or the PSU. Any thoughts? Please, anything. I've already ordered WindowsXP SP1, so we'll see what that does.
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